Search results matching tag 'text tool'

35 BRILLIANT CALLIGRAPHY FONTS: Free Calligraphy Fonts

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:00:39 GMT

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35 BRILLIANT CALLIGRAPHY FONTS is a collection of free, downloadable, calligraphy fonts

I love all fonts but have a particular weakness for script and calligraphy fonts. They can gave any digital communication a more warm and friendly feel. Plus, at a time when Arial 12 or Helvetica 10 seem the norm, script and calligraphy [...]

CRUXBOT: Web Page Summarizer

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:00:04 GMT

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CRUXBOT is a free service which will parse a web page article or report down to a couple of paragraphs.

The web is a marvelous source of information — too marvelous in most cases. While finding information is no longer a problem, reading through it all can be an huge challenge. That were today’s [...]

USEFREESMS: Free Text Message Service

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:31:33 GMT

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USEFREESMS is a free, online, text messaging service.

Do you use SMS or text messaging? I do but not a lot. I like the concept but hate having to use a tiny mobile device. Even my iPhone which is probably more user friendly then most is a pain to use. I much rather employ [...]

DUPLICHECKER: Free Online Plagiarism Checker

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:00:41 GMT

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DUPLICHECKER is a free, online plagiarism checker.

Of all the links and resources posted on this web site, the plagiarism checkers are the most popular. I’m not sure whether to be happy about that or sad. I suppose anything which draws users to the DE Tools blog site is a good thing but I [...]

PDFMAKER: Online PDF Creation Tool

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:56:57 GMT

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PDFMAKER is a free, online, PDF Creation Tool.

Every once in a while I come across an app which makes me scratch my head and wonder, “Why?” Why did someone or some group bother to create an app for which there is no apparent need or want? While it baffles me, perhaps someone wiser [...]

ONLINE BOOKS: Collection of Free Downloadable Online Books

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:00:32 GMT

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ONLINE BOOKS is a collection of more then 1 million free books.

Today’s site — ONLINE BOOKS — was created by the library of the University of Pennsylvania and contains more then 1 million volumes. That’s an impressive number by any standard.

While the site itself is very spartan in comparison to commercial [...]

PRO WRITE AID: A Grammar & Syntax Writing Checker

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:00:23 GMT

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PRO WRITE AID is an online grammar and writing syntax checker.

Today’s online app called PRO WRITE AID will check a users writing for things like grammar misuse, overused words, sentence variation, “sticky” sentences, cliches & redundancies, repeated words and phrases plus much more.

The user simply copies and pastes some text into [...]

SIMPLEBOOKLET: Simple Flip-book Creator

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:00:25 GMT

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SIMPLEBOOKLET is an online app for creating web based flip-books.

Here in British Columbia, “flip-books”, those online publications where the pages appear to virtually turn or “flip”, are all the rage. For example, every time the Ministry of Education releases a new announcement or policy it’s circulated in the form of a flip-book. [...]

PDFESCAPE: PDF Document Annotation Tool

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:00:38 GMT

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PDFESCAPE is a PDF document annotation tool that allows the user to mark-up a document.

I almost didn’t include today’s tool, PDFESCAPE because a part of it ticked me off. In the end however, I decided there was more good then aggravation here so, I let it stay.

PDFESCAPE is a PDF annotator tool. [...]

OCREXTRACT: Online OCR Service

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:00:37 GMT

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OCREXTRACT is a free, online OCR Service

Today’s site, OCREXTRACT was originally recommended by DE Tools reader “thtesche”. After reading my post of another OCR service called, Better OCR, he suggested I also try OCREXTRACT.

This service will convert PDF, TIFF, PNG, JPG, BMP and PBM files into editable text documents.

To sample OCREXTRACT, users must [...]