Last updated: Aug 6th 2012. This is our third update of this article, which we believe to be the best critical overview of TRULY free PDF to Word tools on the internet. With each update, a slew of tools are added and a number of the old →
How to convert CBZ & CBR files to PDF
I noticed some users looking for this, so here’s how to convert CBZ and CBR ebook files into PDF. This can be easily done using free software. You will need 2 tools; a decompression program that can extract ZIP and RAR, and JPGtoPDF, a program that can →
Add thumbnail previews to PDF files in Windows with PDF Preview
Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of the first things most people install on a computer, but one thing which I do not understand is why it does not offer the option for thumbnail previews in Windows (other free PDF readers, such as PDF XChange Viewer, offer →
Create a beautiful and professional resume or CV with PDF CV
PDF CV is a neat little free web-based program that will let you create a new CV or resume in PDF format and then download it to your system directly. It’s super simple, very easy to get the hang of, and costs nothing. There’s been a →
Convert screenshots to text with Capture2Text, a free optical character recognition (OCR) app
There are times when you might see some on-screen text and want to grab it or use it in a document, only to find that for some reason it refuses to be clipped (e.g. it might be graphics-based or the document might be protected or whatever). →
View and Manage your comics and digital images with GonVisor
GonVisor is a free program that will help you to not only organize and manage your electronic format comics, mangas, magazines and books, but also print, read or modify them as well. All this is done is a very clean interface that has tons of options →
“Soda 3D PDF Reader” adds a nice ‘page flipping’ effect to your PDF reading experience
What does “3D PDF” mean? A PDF reader that can ‘flip’ pages visually in 3D as if reading a real book. Soda 3D PDF a free PDF reader that can do this for PDFs as well as CBR and CBZ comic book formats. Additionally, it can →
Free Giveaway – ABBYY Screenshot reader performs on-screen Optical Character Recognition
Ever wanted to edit or use some on-screen text from a PDF or any other source, only to find that for whatever reason you couldn’t do it? (say, the text was in fact an image, or the clipboard was disabled, or whatever reason). If so, then →
Free eBook Giveaway: Microsoft Office 2010 Tips & Tricks
Users of MS Office 2010 take note: Microsoft Office 2010 Tips & Tricks is an ebook that offers insights on advanced MS Office functionality valued at $6.95, but offered for free through Wednesday Nov 16th 2011. This ebook contains tips for Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook, and covers many of →
Read your eBooks on your Android with Cool Reader
There are plenty of eBook readers out there, and even more than a few for mobile devices like Androids. That means, of course, that you have tons of options for which reader you choose to use. How, then, do you decide which one? The simple answer →
How to extract text from images: a comparison of 10 free OCR tools
Printing text to paper is done every day; on some occasions however the reverse is needed – getting the original text back from a scanned image or photograph, for further editing and use. This conversion is named Optical Character Recognition or OCR for short, and it can convert scanned books →
More Than Just a Textbook eReader, Inkling is a Powerful iPad Study Tool with Some Serious Economic Advantages
One day, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will sit on their mommies’ and daddies’ knees and hear an almost unbelievable account of how people used to actually cut down trees to make paper. They will regard you and me with the same combination of sympathy and condescension that →
