ComedDocs Converts Between More Than 50 File Types
We know of one or two sites (or many more, actually) that provide file conversions between PDFs, Word documents, and a few other files. CometDocs takes the all-in-one approach, supporting more than 50 file types.
That’s a pretty catchy selling point in itself—you can convert PDFs to Excel files, huge TIFF images to PDF, icon files into images, and the site even does a little OCR work on certain image-to-text conversions. But the simple-to-use site also can take almost any file type that’s lost an extension and tell you what kind it is, as well as compare two different text or document files and return the text lines where they’re different. It can pull the ID3 tags off an MP3, convert an HTML file into an RSS feed, and, well, hit the “FAQ” tab below to see what else it can do.
The site’s disclaimer says it will never rent or sell your email address. Signing up with an email and password gives you a “Premium Account,” though it’s not really spelled out what that offers over CometDocs’ free conversions. Thanks Martha!
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Seriously? Look at the web-site.
rnevius
Is it comed or comet?
RenfredScrimmer
@RenfredScrimmer: CometDocs. Sorry for the typo.
hi!
the service does not work
Alessandro Romano
@Alessandro Romano: How so? I got my documents back in a few minutes' time.
15 minutes after uploading my file, I received this message: The conversion has failed.
DOES NOTHING IN THIS WORLD CONVERT CLARIS WORKS ANYMORE???
Sorry for the shouting, but I've got some really primo mid-90s chemistry papers and poems from high school that I'd love to preserve in a functional format.
If it can handle the fricken' retarded DOCX format, I'm all over it.
Worked great on my PDF. Bookmarked
RonnieJeans
Nice tool, thanks for sharing, I used to use this PDF converter to do that, it works pretty well too.
colarmac
Just used this to convert an instruction manual in PDF format from a Czech website to a *.docx file - worked flawlessly in about 3-4 minutes - easily saved me several hours of conversion-by-hand work! Thanks LH!
Rezendes
@Kevin Purdy:
I tried many times and once I got the email (with gmail)
image from a pdf
from txt to pdf
Alessandro Romano
@OCEntertainment: I downloaded a office 2007to 2003 convertor from microsoft.com
I havent had any troubles opening docx and pptx with that...
metalmarious
The benefits of a premium account - from the CometDocs FAQ: "By signing up for a free account, you will receive faster document conversions since account holders receive priority in the conversion sequence. You will also be able to retrieve them directly from the file manager and store the files there for use at a later stage. You will also not have to provide an email address each time that you perform a conversion. "
Mark Bykerk Kauffman
@Alessandro Romano: probably just got overloaded with lh readers happens all the time
metalmarious
BUT, can it convert from Outlook .PST to Mail.APP?
It worked for me to convert a TIFF file to PDF, but it was not smart about recognizing the orientation of the image. It returned a landscape image as a two-page PDF in portrait layout, with half of the image on each page. Kinda useless....
GBMax
It worked for me to convert a TIFF file to PDF, but it was not smart about recognizing the orientation of the image. It returned a landscape image as a two-page PDF in portrait layout, with half of the image on each page. Kinda useless....
GBMax
@illtron: Hey! I remember Claris! Um. I dont think anything supports that anymore. Thats almost like getting a COBOL to PHP translator.
@illtron: Just use `vi`. With enough knowledge, it can convert almost any file. ;)
TheFu
@lankysob: Third try, dammit.
zamzar
@lankysob: Sorry, bad linkage:
zamzar
I was just able to (mostly) convert a PDF I created in Indesign to a .doc using www.zamzar.com. There are a few formatting things I'm in the midst of fixing (due to formatting the page originally in Indesign), but overall it did a pretty good job of coming close to the way it was originally. It's still way better than trying to recreate it from scratch in Open Office.
Free PDF to Excel/CSV = HOLY COW!
Where have you been all my life.
For the feature OP mentioned "site even does a little OCR work on certain image-to-text conversions" I prefer
[www.onlineocr.net] which gives you the conversion right on their site within one minute (for a few pages) instead of waiting for an email to come in.
Joe Duck
@illtron: Have you checked out Open Office? It has converters for Claris
[www.oooforum.org]
@illtron: I would let the high-school poetry go, man...
shazaam42
@Kevin: No you cannot.
It's funny that they tell you they won't release your email address, yet they don't promise not to use information and data contained in the files you send them to convert. "All your data are belong to us"
AustinFunguar
I have been using Zamzar for a while and it works great www.zamzar.com IT converts all kinds of files, more than CometDocs I think
HarleyZebra
I've always found that media-convert.com works well, even if the site looks ugly
JasonFunguar
Too frustrating to use. Signed up premium. Still requires email insert before send. Cookies and java enabled. Not one conversion has arrived at any email address used. Will check back in a week or two to see if they are still in business or conversions have arrived.
SpencerPsyche
I don't see any information on what they do with the file I've uploaded and whether they retain a copy of it for some purpose.
Am I the only one concerned about this?
Myrmidon2009
I prefer media-convert.com thanks!
TateHizer
The site converted my .pdf into a .jpeg when I wanted a .doc... I can do the same.
danahyatt
This a good tool for PDF-related conversions. But for others, I prefer www.media-convert.com. It supports conversions for audio, video, ringtones, images, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, archives and even Access databases! Plus, you can do absurdly useful things like scale a video down or change the bit-rate of a song, making it suitable for converting a video for portable devices. You can either get an email notification when the file is ready, or just keep the page open.
You can use mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx to analyse files without extensions. Although it's primarily a database of extensions, it can do this as well. This one cannot send you the info by email, though. Also, it's not quite perfect - I gave it a PDF with no extension and it suggested either PDF or Matlab.
fish613
PDF to Excel does not work.
SeanPower