PDF conversion tools are quite thick on the ground. It’s almost granted that you will find a tool – both online and desktop – that does the job of converting your Word documents to PDF. But here we look at the reverse process which is equally important…converting your PDF files to easily editable Word documents [...]
Adobe may have given us the Portable Document Format or PDF as it is popularly known. It may also have the set of industry standard tools from the free Adobe Reader to the $199 Adobe Acrobat X. But the good news is that with the slew of PDF freeware available today, you can look beyond [...]
The one thing that comes to our mind when we utter the word office is piles of documents lying here and there. Well, the obvious solution is digitizing them and that can prevent the paper from flying around in the office, but don’t get fooled, because while digitization of paper docs gives us cleaner and [...]
What’s the first word that strikes your mind when you want to get something photocopied? Xerox right! In the same way, one word that strikes the mind of masses when they see a PDF file is Adobe. Since the day Adobe Acrobat Reader was introduced in 1993 it has been the default PDF reader on [...]
I was using the very handy doPDF, the free PDF converter in Firefox to print out online receipts and sundry other things. Then a development on Chrome made me ditch that and come over to Google’s browser for the same jobs. Google Chrome’s Print to PDF option is a basic built in functionality. But it [...]
Portable devices like iPhones and iPads may be denting your wallet, but if used wisely they can make up for it by providing food for your brain. I am talking about their use as eBook readers. There are a score of eBook readers in the market vying for your eyeballs. Booki.sh, a sleek browser based [...]
PDF splitters help to do the digital equivalent of ripping pages from a book. Of course, a splitter usually is paired with a PDF combiner that does the nicer job of “gluing” it all back together. PDF files or eBooks are common these days, so along with a PDF reader, you should also have a [...]
If reading is your pleasure then you must be hankering for an eReader. They are all the rage these days with Amazon’s Kindle, Sony, Nook, even the iPad and smartphones to a certain extent. Kindle is of course, at top of the pile right now. With the proprietary Kindle format (AZW), both Kindle 3 and [...]
There aren’t a huge number of tools (desktop or web based) that enable quick and hassle-free creation of a digital or electronic signature for signing documents. Most of the good tools available come at a good price too. I have faced a number of occasions in the past where I had to digitally sign a [...]
Few days ago, I talked about setting up and reading free ebooks on Kindle For PC. It’s a cool software actually because not only it provides a great interface for reading ebooks, it also has dictionary lookup and ability to highlight text and add notes. So you could use it for reading all the PDF [...]
E-books are becoming an increasingly popular medium for displaying information. And if you find yourself frequenting these new electronic books, you may have noticed that it becomes quite dull after a while. I, for one, miss the tangible page flip of a novel or a good instructional guide. That’s why Codebox’s web app – that’s [...]
Finally, at long last I have found a Facebook app that doesn’t make me want to tear my hair out in pure rage. No, I am not talking about Farmville. I am actually talking about two Facebook apps with a real purpose. A purpose for more than just wasting time planting farms; these apps encourage [...]
Each Mac comes with a number of applications, however, usually apps like Garageband, iMovie, and Photo Booth grab the maximum share of a new user’s attention. There’s another application that is used way more often than any of the aforementioned, and only known and used for a fraction of its abilities. Called Preview, this is [...]
We published an article sometime ago that showcased 4 web based tools to convert webpages to PDF. Roger, one of our readers, mentioned the Web2PDF Firefox add-on in his comment. The add-on helps you directly convert webpages to PDF files and store or share them online. Here’s the options window which pops up after you [...]
The PDF format for documents was created by Adobe to facilitate easier sharing of rich text documents. If you want to read a webpage offline or want to share a nice article you came across with your friends or family, then converting it to PDF might be a good option. This article talks about 4 [...]
Like you need a tool or a software to extract text from images, you need one for extracting text from PDF files too. That’s because no PDF reader has an in-built option for that. Suppose for reference you need to copy the text from a PDF file, then, obviously, you can’t just copy paste. The [...]
