{"id":13624,"date":"2026-02-06T13:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/?p=13624"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:09:55","slug":"pdfguru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2026\/02\/06\/pdfguru\/","title":{"rendered":"pdfguru \u2013 subscription trap \u2013 I got my money back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I used pdfguru a couple of times for getting &#8220;image PDFs&#8221; OCR-ed. Nice service actually. Cost me \u20ac 0.99 per week. Sort of really, really cheap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But then they charged me \u20ac 49.99, and I found out, they thought, I opted for a monthly ongoing subscription. That&#8217;s called <em>subscription trap<\/em>, in German: &#8220;Abofalle&#8221;. I searched the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scam-detector.com\/validator\/pdfguru-com-review\/\">https:\/\/www.scam-detector.com\/validator\/pdfguru-com-review\/<\/a> \u2013 go to the bottom of that page!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s mean!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I contacted my bank. OMG, what a painful process altogether!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also contacted pdfguru, and asked them to reimburse me. They replied, that&#8217;s impossible. Once charged, they cannot reimburse me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My bank accepted the &#8220;plea&#8221; and started the process. Several days later, pdfguru sent me a mail saying, I got reimbursed, A few days later the transfer showed up my cash account. I am happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BTW: If you are looking for a similar (but \u2026) service, look for &#8220;pdf24&#8221; and then for OCR. I keep using their web page for that service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used pdfguru a couple of times for getting &#8220;image PDFs&#8221; OCR-ed. Nice service actually. Cost me \u20ac 0.99 per week. Sort of really, really cheap. But then they charged me \u20ac 49.99, and I found out, they thought, I opted for a monthly ongoing subscription. That&#8217;s called subscription trap, in German: &#8220;Abofalle&#8221;. I searched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[386,423,425,427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocr","category-pdf","category-pdf-scraping","category-pdftohtml"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saO0kP-pdfguru","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13625,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624\/revisions\/13625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}