Power PDF - Professional Document Reformation

We are an appraisal consulting firm providing the valuation of machinery and equipment. Most clients submit documents in PDF format. These can be MS Word-based documents, Excel spreadsheets, and so forth. Kofax Power PDF is used to access information from these documents. Kofax Power PDF saves a great deal of time in document conversion making equipment lists editable. It is used through the company.

There was a learning curve. But it has the "look and feel" of a Windows application, so it wasn't overly difficult. One appraisal project involved an Excel file that was 300 pages. Retyping that much data was out of the question. We started a conversion and went home. In the morning, Kofax Power PDF had converted the document into a electronic editable format in the native MS Excel format. There were minor editing issues, but it took only a few hours to have a fully working file.

Recently, we have been editing PDF documents that were printed from web pages - "Edit Text" and "Edit Object" are the tools we use. We use this data as comparable sales for appraising machinery and equipment. We like to remove superfluous images, text, and so forth. We then add "Comments" about the item as it compares to the subject being appraised. Sometimes we "Crop" the file to exclude unnecessary margins, to make smaller file sizes. We use "Document Assemble" to organize and rearrange the pages within the document on some files. A series of comparables will be saved as a single file, for ease in reviewing them.