Generally, when preparing news articles or reviews, journalists and reporters have to handle many public documents - press release, brochures, white papers, and so on - issued by various organizations. Heaps of press releases every day come to news agencies to be transformed into news items immediately. Time is everything for that kind of activity.

Most of these documents are delivered in PDF format, a widely recognized standard for electronic documents intended for publication, sharing or archiving. PDFs are most appropriately used to encode the exact look of a document which cannot be changed without using of a special software. In comparison with editable formats (such as DOC and RTF ), a PDF format provides greater control over integrity of information contained in the document.

But at the same time, it can be challenging to work with PDFs, especially when you want to repurpose the information, make some changes or to quote the text. So if you are a journalist, especially an online journalist who makes tens of news every day, you will definitely be confronted with difficulties when trying to extract “hot" information from PDFs. Manual retyping requires a lot of time and effort - that is unacceptable for press workers. In such a situation, the most appropriate way is to use a software application intended to transform PDF files into editable documents. This should be an easy-to-use, quick and reasonably priced program that does not require any special knowledge.

One of appropriate conversion programs is ABBYY PDF Transformer , which can accurately transform any type of PDF file into editable files such as Microsoft Word and Excel. You can use it either to convert PDF into editable documents with page layout retention (including graphics, columns and tables) or simply to extract necessary text with one push of a button. It also provides the ability to generate searchable PDF files directly from Office applications.