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
Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. ...
, data conversion, and content licensing.
Cogniview's flagship product is PDF2XL, an application for converting tabular data from PDF files into Excel.
Cogniview sells its products through distributors and online worldwide, in more than 70 countries.
Company history
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.
Zimbabwe Conspiracy Theory
In late March 2008, the opposition in
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
accused Cogniview of helping the government in rigging the parliamentary and presidential elections.
The accusations were later refuted by Cogniview's CEO
Yoav Ezer in his blog, after online and offline newspapers caught on the story and started to investigate.
Free Open Source software
Cogniview Labs have released the following software as
free and open source software
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is a term used to refer to groups of software consisting of both free software and open-source software where anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source ...
. All are licensed under
GPL
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general us ...
:
* CC Info – A plugin for Adobe Acrobat that allows integrating Creative-commons license information into created PDF files.
*
CC PDF Converter
CC PDF Converter was a free and open-source program that allowed users to convert documents into PDF files on Microsoft Windows operating systems, while embedding a Creative Commons license.
The application leveraged RedMon and Ghostscript and w ...
– A
virtual printer
In computing a virtual printer is a simulated device whose user interface and API resemble that of a printer driver, but which is not connected with a physical computer printer.
When a document is "printed" by a virtual printer, instead of physi ...
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
Commercial Products
* 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.
See also
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Portable Document Format
Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating syste ...
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Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation or computation capabilities, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for ...
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