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Cogniview is an international computer software company, focusing mainly on data conversion applications for the PC. The company has released several free open source software products related to PDF, data conversion, and content licensing.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cogniview is an international computer software company, focusing mainly on data conversion applications for the PC.2
Cogniview was created as a start-up company in 2002 and focused on converting Mainframe reports to Excel and Databases with its Enterprise Reports Gateway (ERG) product line.
In December 2005, Cogniview released PDF2XL, an application to convert PDF data to Excel, which quickly became the focus of its business.
From Wikipedia’s article on Cogniview, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
Cogniview Labs have released the following software as free and open source software. All are licensed under GPL:
CC Info – A plugin for Adobe Acrobat that allows integrating Creative-commons license information into created PDF files.
CC PDF Converter – A virtual printer that creates PDF files from any Windows application (that supports printing), optionally embedding a Creative Commons license in it.
Excel to PDF Converter – A virtual printer that has the same basic functionality as CC PDF Converterand integrates directly with Microsoft Excel to allow creating PDF files from Excel while keeping the web hyperlinks and internal links.
PostWisdom for Firefox – A Firefox plugin for bloggers containing tips and information
PDF2XL – A program for conversion of tabular data from PDF files to Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and OpenOffice Spreadsheet. The program has several editions:
PDF2XL – Allows converting from regular PDF files.
PDF2XL OCR – Includes an OCR component to allow converting from scanned PDF files in addition to the regular PDF files.
PDF2XL Enterprise – Includes a virtual printer to allow converting from any Windows application that allows printing to Excel, in addition to multiple types of PDF files.
PDF2XL CLI – Allows automation of PDF to Excel conversion via command line scripts.
EUDI (Discontinued) – A product for converting tabular data from any Windows printing application into Excel.
ERG Products (Discontinued) – A client/server solution for conversion of mainframe reports to Excel, Database, or XML.
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