Case Study: Mander Cruickshank cuts PDF conversion time by 75% with ABBYY PDF Transformer

Legal Practice Streamlines Daily Work with PDF files

Mander Cruickshank is a UK-based family legal practice founded in the early 1920s that was spending many staff hours manually converting client and third‑party PDFs into editable Word documents. An administrator routinely cut-and-pasted text, which often broke formatting and made working with longer documents (10+ pages) slow and inefficient—creating a bottleneck before legal work could begin.

The firm adopted ABBYY PDF Transformer after testing it met their requirement of ≥90% accuracy and fast conversion (they averaged under one minute per document with 99% accuracy). The tool automated PDF-to-Word conversion, preserved layout and formatting, and reduced conversion time by about 75%, boosting productivity, improving turnaround for clients, and prompting the purchase of multiple licenses.

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