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Trapeze

Trapeze - 1.3.1

convert PDF files to HTML, RTF, ASCII or plain text

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Current Version: 1.3.1
Release Date: 2005-06-06
License: Commercial
Downloads (this version): 11,074
Downloads (all versions): 18,903
Price: $29.95

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Product Description:

Trapeze is a drag-and-drop text extraction utility that converts PDF files to editable HTML, RTF, ASCII or plain text.


Trapeze puts you in control over the conversion process, with options for white space stripping, paragraph rewrapping and page break marking. Additional features include advanced text encoding, targeted RTF optimization (TextEdit or Microsoft Word), and support for encrypted (password protected) PDF.


Trapeze's powerful reformatting engine is capable of standard HTML conversion, high quality RTF rendering and faithful plain text reproduction; a must for users interested in PDF web publishing, content data mining or repurposing.


A limited trial version of Trapeze converts up to three pages of any PDF and may be evaluated free of charge.

What's new in this version:

    Jumbled pages fix. Fixed problem that could lead to jumbled pages in converted document.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.3 or later
    Tiger Compatible

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Trapeze Developer NotePDF to formatted text is tricky - Version: 1.3.1, 11/9/2006 05:36PM PST

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MesaDynamics2 (Mesa Dynamics, LLC)
PDF to formatted text is an imperfect science, as the source PDF has no layout information (margins, word breaks, line spacing, paragraph starts, etc.) so formatting has to be calculated and extrapolated from the physical location of text in the page space. In other words, it's hard to recompute the layout in a way that works for every possible type of PDF document, and more imporantly, it depends highly on the software that was used to create the PDF (for example, Latex strips out all inter-word spacing).

Trapeze works perfectly on many PDFs, but poorly in some (though in the majority of our test cases, it does a fine job). If you find that Trapeze is not working for your files, the best thing you can do is send us some samples. It's the only way we can trace what is happening in the layout engine. Thanks!
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Trapeze ReviewAlmost. - Version: 1.3.1, 11/8/2006 04:58PM PST

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-=Someone=-
Very promising product, but I can echo some of the other experiences that make this unusable. Each conversion had formatting errors and mistakes in almost every word. Does the use of particular fonts cause this conversion process to fail?
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Trapeze ReviewDoes not provide usable conversion - Version: 1.3.1, 9/28/2006 10:12PM PST

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jmynster
I tried the first four formats to convert a pdf file and it gave me mispelled words and unintelligible garbage each time. Thank goodness I had not paid for it yet and was trying it in the demo mode.
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