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CopyWriter - No nonsense editor since 2001 is a basic editor for all day use. As a lightweight general purpose editor it is capable of opening *.txt, *.rtf, *.doc and binary files.

Microsoft Reader is a free, downloadable software application that allows you to read eBooks on Windows-based devices you may already own. Take advantage of a growing marketplace of over 60,000 eBook titles while enjoying the convenience and features of Microsoft Reader.

PDF Plain Text Extractor(P2T) is a tool that can extract plain text from PDF files without any PDF SDK or other third party lib's help. You don't need any products from Adobe (neither Adobe Acrobat Reader nor Adobe Acrobat) installed on your computer. P2T focus on text extraction from pdf file. It analyzes the raw pdf file directly and extract plain text from it. The layout of the document is reserved. Performance and precision are our goal.

LangOver - Convert your text quickly between languages - spelling software

Ka Type In - fill forms - insert predefined text snippets

Tesseract OCR installer for Windows FreeOCR is a complete scan and OCR program including the Windows compiled Tesseract free ocr engine V2.00. It includes a Windows installer and It is very simple to use and supports multi-page tiff's, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff's which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read .It now has Twain scanning included and support for multipage Tiff documents. Best of all it is totally free !

Free download ABC Amber Sony Convertor, convert LRF files to PDF, HTML, CHM, DOC, RTF, TXT, HLP documents ABC Amber Sony Converter is an advanced utility which converts your LRF (Sony) files to any format you wish (PDF, HTML, CHM, RTF, HLP, DOC, TXT, and more) easily and quickly.
The software supports a batch conversion, a run from command line, more than 50 languages. Batch conversion ability allows you to convert a unlimited number of LRF files at a time.

AM-Notebook - note-taking program for notes and formula based spreadsheets is a multi-featured tabbed note-taking program that provides an easy and reliable way to save notes and formula supported spreadsheets in a light weight tray icon tool.

PageFour - Software for writers is a tabbed word processor and outliner for creative writers. Where other word processors were designed with the business user in mind, PageFour aims to meet the needs of a different class of writer. It does not improve your prose or make you a better writer - only you can do that, but PageFour does make your job just that little bit easier.

Notepad2 The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest program of all times, small, fast, without frills! Notepad2 tries to follow this principle, it's a small, fast and free text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages.

Free Text To PDF Converter (txt to pdf) - Convert Text to PDF free with free text to pdf converter, freeware, txt2pdf, text2pdf, txt to pdf, text to pdf

Text Recorder is our program which reads e-text aloud. It records either WAV or MP3 files which you can transfer to a portable player to listen to anywhere. You can get through all your computer-based reading, even when you are not at the computer. You can listen to electronic books, web pages, email and other text-based documents on your pocket MP3 player. While listening, you can commute, cook, exercise or just relax.

HCI Design's FreeSpell - spell check any Windows program

EXP Systems Home of PDF reDirect Create PDF files and save them to your hard drive or network.
New v2 Features: Append a PDF to an existing PDF and Basic Encryption.
Completely Free with no popups, no watermarks, no restrictions!

Easy PDF to Text Converter 2.0 - Can extract text from pdf files - it does NOT need Adobe Acrobat software

mdiNotepad has everything you can need when editing text files. It includes features like a Multiple document interface (MDI), Customizable toolbar, Support for large files, Tools for fast File browsing (with Find in Files and more) and Block editing, Open files menu, customizable Open/Save filters, customizable Function keys, Recent documents menu, Favorites menu and a customizable Library.

WordWiseLookUp With WordWiseLookup you can quickly lookup or translate words on your screen: the software reads the word under the mouse pointer and opens www.wordwiselookup.com where you can select one of the free web glossaries or dictionaries of your choice. There is no typing needed, the information you are looking for is available with just two mouse clicks.

AbiWord is an award winning, small, fast, featureful and crossplatform word processor. Get your copy today to experience the state of the art in word processing.

Fun4Word It integrates with Word through a menù.
Thanks to it amusing and funny formattings can be applied to parts of selected text or to a whole document.
Fun4Word is able to write mirror words or whole sentences, to mix the words of a sentence, to remove all the vowels from the words, to color every word of a document of a different color, to give an aspect to wave to a sentence, etc. etc...
Fun4Word has a lot of these functions, had a good time trying their all.

Jot-It is a handy multi-page notepad. Version 1.2 includes an Edit menu with Cut, Copy, Paste and Select All options. It also has a change font option.

Q-Jot is a relatively small alternative rich text editor that saves .doc files, inserts images and can serve as a good WordPad replacement. It is basically a wordpad replacement, that can run from a floppy. Some features include:............

Add-in Express.com - Free sample add-ins ADX Toys 2 add-in for Word is a free add-in for Word that adds a syntax highlight feature to Word. The add-in is based on Add-in Express 2 VCL Edition and designed to show how to create add-ins, how to manage add-in toolbars and controls, and how to get access to Word objects. ADX Toys 2 for Word supports MS Word 2000, 2002 (X), 2003 and higher.

InstantNotes The main difference of InstantNotes from other note solutions is it's easiness of usage.
While other programs wait a plenty of actions from you, InstantNotes will create your note
in a second only with one hotkey.

TXTcollector Text file merging tool

WritePad It´s powerful text editor with crypting, highlighting and more functions. WritePad is free program created just for you. Multi-language program: Supports English, Russian, Ukrainian languages.

Digital Diary This a free program without any annoying nag screens. You can use it to record your day-to-day activities. Its very easy to write your diary using this program. Just start it up any you will be able to enter the stories you experienced that day.
You can also browse through stories already entered, and you can change existing entries.

Global Spell Checker and Dictionary - Check spelling and meaning of words from any application

Check the spelling and meaning of words from any application using Microsoft Word.
Spelling suggestions and meanings are displayed in a non-disturbing way so that you do not have to shift from the application you are working.
Unlike other programs in this category, GlobalSpellChecker is loaded to memory only when required and exits after spell check is over.

EditPad Lite - Free Text Editor for Windows and Linux is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor. EditPad Lite works with Windows 95, NT4, 98, 2000, ME and XP. The Linux version is available separately.

TextBath A Win32 command-line program to reformat text files into continuous paragraphs. It can also add line breaks or paragraphs if a line matches a string, indent new paragraphs, remove tabs and insert appropriate HTML. It can also read directly from the clipboard and output to the console. I wrote this because it's quite a common thing to have to do, especially when copying text from e-mails.

TxtConverter is a Windows-32bits tool to convert text files.
It's main purpose is to extract datas from text files organised in columns, in order to write
all or part of them, possibly changing their tidiness.
It is able to change date formats too.

EditPad Classic - The Original Postcardware Text Editor

IntelliEdit RichText editor powered by Smart Autocompletion It can autocomplete words and phrases, auto-expand shorthands. It can even learn new words and phrase while typing. IntelliEdit can tremendously boost your typing speed. IntelliEdit is based on a tab-page MDI interface. You can create, edit and print multiple RTF documents conveniently in IntelliEdit. IntelliEdit is slim in size and quick to load.

Tabnotes NoteWorks is a very user friendly notepad with lots of tabs make it easy to organize all kinds of notes and information. It divided in categories-notes for every category- subnotes for every note. A simple but with many features program. All notes are stored in text files. The program is translated in many languages. like English, Spanish, Greek, Russian, Dutch, French, Polish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Hungarian, Danish

Atlantis Word Processor Unlike much of the competition, Atlantis has been carefully designed with the end-user in mind. Most commands are only one-mouse-click-away. With a fully customizable interface and a whole array of very powerful functions, Atlantis gives you total control over the viewing, handling, editing and protection of your documents. Beyond the traditional word processing functions, you are provided with graphic-type tools to format your documents. You will use special brushes to apply format templates, color, and highlighting to your draft documents, just as an artist adds touches of color to a picture! The "As-You-Type" AutoCorrect and Spellchecker of Atlantis will guarantee that all your documents have perfect language. You will use the Atlantis encryption function to protect your documents with unassailable 256-bit-strong keys. Atlantis can also zip your documents and attach them to emails. You will Encrypt - Zip - Send by email, only using Atlantis internal commands. You will save your documents as HTML pages later to be posted on your home site. Multiple users will enjoy having each their own configuration of options to launch Atlantis with. Background sounds are available for most of the Atlantis events. If you wish so, you will type to the sound of an old-time typewriter!

Text Cleaver Text File Cleaver splits large text files into smaller manageable files for other programs (such as Excel) to manipulate. This program is extremely fast and will run on most Wintel OS's. Text File Cleaver will handle text files hundreds of megabytes in size; there is no size limitation other than individual line size of 1025 characters. Just Unzip and run. Text File Cleaver sets a default size of 65000 rows which is just under Microsoft Excel's Maximum spreadsheet size. You can adjust the size according to your own needs.

µBook is a simple and lean, yet powerful ebook reader for Windows and Pocket PCs that can read HTML, TXT, RTF, PDB and PRC (not secure) ebook files. It can read directly from inside ZIP or RAR files, and supports BMP, GIF and JPG images. It offers many customization options including: Portrait and Landscape display, Choice of font type, color and size, etc.... It Also has a resizable/skinnable User Interface. µBook is improving on a regular basis and best of all it's free!

DocPad - an alternative to Notepad.

Create PDF bookmark and link page Addin Favorites is the essential product for every user of Acrobat or Acrobat Reader. Every one of us has once used on Internet the utility to create bookmarks. Now PDF Software provides the same functionality for Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. Favorites creates links in a floating window that lead you to pages of a PDF document just by pressing a button of your mouse. The links are organized in folders with the possibility to modify them whenever you want and you can always find them in the window of your Favorites. FREE PRODUCT. ALSO FOR ACROBAT READER.

Dariolius Column Splitter - is a small program that allows you to split delimited text files. The first column on each line is used as a line marker in each split part.
You can choose to split into parts with up to 9999 columns. Column delimiters can be chosen from the list or entered by the user.

Paper Notes Know the sticky yellow notes? That's the same thing but on the screen. The best thing is that it does not leave the glue on the surface ;)

tinySpell Check your spelling with this freeware

EZpad Welcome to the official EZpad Homepage! Here you'll find everything you need to know about the Icelandic HTML editor.

Speed Typing - word processing software from Invention Pilot With Speed Typing, you can type frequently used text quickly and easily. You just type a word, and Speed Typing will automatically replace it with a line or a paragraph.

Sayz Me - free text-to-speech reader - make the computer talk - accessibility software - page magnifier - reading on screen

Easy PDF PDF Creation tool is a specialized WYSIWYG environment for quickly and easily creating Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Easy PDF provides all the power to create sophisticated PDF documents, and apply links/hypertext on the final document.

FreeSpell is a spell checker for any and all Windows applications. You can use it in Eudora, in Microsoft Outlook, Symantec Visual Cafe, and even in Windows Explorer when renaming files (though it's a little tricky to do that). Anything that supports the clipboard supports FreeSpell, and all it takes is a hotkey to invoke it. Just as important, FreeSpell is based upon the Aspell engine, which means it offers the best spell checker around for people with weak spelling skills (as well for people who just need a quick proofreader).

Pdftohtml is a tool based on the Xpdf package which translates pdf documents into html format.

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth.

FillOutAForm enables you to fill out a scanned form on your computer and print it.

The Literary Machine creativity and database software for writers, researchers, teachers, thinkers, and analysts

XEmacs The next generation of Emacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system. It is protected under the GNU Public License and related to other versions of Emacs, in particular GNU Emacs. Its emphasis is on modern graphical user interface support and an open software development model, similar to Linux. XEmacs has an active development community numbering in the hundreds, and runs on Windows 95 and NT, Linux and nearly every other version of Unix in existence. Support for XEmacs has been supplied by Sun Microsystems, University of Illinois, Lucid, ETL/Electrotechnical Laboratory, Amdahl Corporation, BeOpen, and others, as well as the unpaid time of a great number of individual developers.

PDFTOHTML conversion program is a utility which converts PDF files into HTML and XML formats.

eTextReader This program lets you read plain text files - e.g. eTexts as provided by the Project Gutenberg - in a book-like manner. Window size, font style and font size are selectable; page breaks are inserted automatically. You can set bookmarks and search for character strings.

SpellCheck.net - Free Online Spell Checker

DupBlock - is a text duplication utility that generates blocks of text that are alike except for one or more sequenced variables

IntelliEdit is a Rich Text Editor powered by smart autocompletion. It can autocomplete words and phrases, auto-expand shorthands. It can even learn new words and phrase while typing. IntelliEdit can tremendously boost your typing speed. IntelliEdit is based on a tab-page MDI interface. You can create, edit and print multiple RTF documents conveniently in IntelliEdit. IntelliEdit is slim in size and quick to load.

Word Search and Replace is a freeware macro for Microsoft Word. We created 'WordSR' for those who need a tool to search and replace in Word documents but find Funduc's Search and Replace too powerful for their needs. Word Search and Replace uses the find and replace functions built-in to Microsoft Word. It does not use our Search and Replace product so the available functions are the same as those in the Word 'Find and Replace' dialog. Word Search and Replace can process more than one file by specifying a 'wild card' in the dialog's 'File Mask (with path)' field.

ASCII Pic This program allows you to convert bitmaps (*.bmp) and JPEGs (*.jpg) into plain text files (*.txt)

SimpleOCR - the only royalty free OCR engine!

Talking Translator is a small and easy to use Text to Speech Language Translator. It can Translate up to 150 English Words to 5 foreign languages and back. These Languages include French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish. By utilizing MS Agent Technology it can also read the translation results.

APSC Spell Checker allows you to check the spelling on your text in just about any doc or text window you might have on your computer!

FontPage lets you examine and compare all of the fonts on your system.
You can view any typeface in bold, italic, underline and 3-D. You can also print out a specimen page for any font, or print a list of them.

JDictionary JDictionary is plugin based, and has an easy to use plugin managment system, that is able to download and install the desired plugins automagically from the web. Installing or upgrading one or more plugins (even simultaneously) is just one click!
There are more and more plugins available for jDictionary. It's not necessary for a plugin to be a dictionary related stuff. For example, currently there is a speech synthesizer plugin under development which will be invoked by other plugins to pronounce the desired words.

Win32Pad - My Notepad Replacement

Gymnast converts text files to Adobe Acrobat PDF format without the need for any additional Adobe software.

FontViewer 2

AEdit 3 Free word-processor, which includes text encryption and spell checker

Text-Reader. Read and translate Internet texts, and learn words.

Quick Spell Check is a very handy utility that you can use to get a quick spell check on any word you enter. Simply run the program, type in a word and click a button. If your word is spelled incorrectly you will get a list of suggested corrections. Double click on the correct spelling to copy that word to the Window's clipboard. That's it!

Keynote is a flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook, based on Windows standard RichEdit control. It's always acessible with a single keypress, even if you work in another application. It's certainly more fun to use than pen and paper!

EasyType EasyType liberates you from the pain of typing by auto-completing words/phrases and auto-expanding shorthands. With EasyType, you are no longer typing character by character. You are typing word by word and phrase by phrase. EasyType enjoys an audience of programmers, lawyers, medical clerks, translators, students, and secretaries. EasyType is most suitable for those who deal with heavy typing work everyday and esp. ideal if what they type deal with a special topic in most time.

CyberMatrix Clipboard Magic Windows Clipboard Extender

Microsoft Reader offers the pleasure of reading enhanced by the benefits of technology. Try the first electronic reading software with ClearType™ technology and enjoy an unmatched on-screen reading experience.

JOCR GOCR/JOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License. Joerg Schulenburg started the program, and now leads a team of developers.
GOCR can be used with different front-ends, which makes it very easy to port to different OSes and architectures. It can open many different image formats, and its quality have been improving in a daily basis.

Editor² Imagine having a cake and eating it... Impossible the skeptics among you say? Just take a look at the new editor rewritten from scratch in WTL, using non-linear technology (TM). All the old functionality in an outfit under 100 kB! (one third of the original 2xEditor). And there was even room left to squeeze in a few new features

Delphad Delphad is a Freeware Text - and RTF Editor with embedded HTML & Picture Viewer functions.

Shalom Txt Shalom Txt is a text editor, meant for editing flat text files with no formatting. It should be able to run on Windows 9x/ME/NT4 and Windows 2000.
I've tried to make a straightforward editor with all the standard functions including printing, print preview, popup menu, toolbar, find and replace, recent files list etc. And then added some extras

EDXOR is a versatile, convenient and optimal text editor and data processor. It offers innovative clipboard handling, cryptographic options and logic text conversions, great for education, fun, or privacy. EDXOR is very fast and can edit large files, limited only by the capacity of your system. Supporting drag-and-drop, file associations and command line. EDXOR provides over 50 menu items and custom-built data processing functions for professional applications.

Adobe eBook Reader Software for the ultimate eBook reading experience! Are you ready
to enjoy the portability, versatility, and interactivity of
electronic books?

Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x and Windows NT with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more.

Text2Web (free) convert your text documents to web pages in a flash

EditMan is a text editor with syntax highlighting and a tabbed page system which eliminates the problem of having several open windows covering your screen. It was created to serve as an alternative to using Notepad or buying an expensive package which includes a similar application. EditMan is a pretty powerful text editting tool, as it supports up to 100 open files at a time, whilst still not eating up too much of your computer's memory.

Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader FREE

Notepads+ -FREE - WebmasterFree.com new downloads daily! Notepads+ is a free replacement for the Windows notepad.
Set as the default Windows notepad, click on Options Set as Default, and edit your text files in style.
Drag any file from Explorer and drop it into NotePads+ to edit it. Edit text files larger than 32k.

akSoft - akFontViewer

is a 32-bit utility that lets you view samples of all your installed fonts in Windows. It can show a list of fonts with each font rendered in its own typeface. Also a window much like a Character Map -- which is always active -- shows you which fonts have full character sets and which don't. Other features enable you to define a sample text string, and to check off attributes you'd like to display -- such as bold, italic, underline, and strikeout. Print function is also supported.

Quick Pad Download FREE

Editor for unformatted textfiles (plain/text) and html.
Easy to use interface with quickbuttons for reload and save, great when writing/testing html.
Fully customizable interface including both text and background colors.
Quickbuttons for reload and save

SmallPea ClipEditor 3.0. ClipEditor is a free utility that can automatically save all text that you copy through the Windows Clipboard. Each clip may be renamed and organized so that you can easily reuse it. Options let you keep the program on top, change all text to upper or lowercase, and choose the display font. Not only is ClipEditor easy to use, but it can be a real time-saver."

Clipboard Apps

Field Filler - free clipboard tool software is a useful tool program which can save your text data into Field Filler database and then you can copy each key onto clipboard only by selecting the key.

PhraseExpress Autotext - Clipboard Utility organizes your frequently used text snippets and allows pasting them into any application.

ClipX is a tiny clipboard history manager. It is sweet, it is free, use it.

lClipboard Recorder is a free tool used to record what you have copied/cut to the clipboard. You can paste the same item by selecting from the list of records without repeating copying/cutting the same item from its original place.

CLIPTRAY is a small taskbar application that maintains a history of all the Clipboard operations. Then you can recover an old or previously copied element and re-use it with your own way.

ClipTrak saves the text you copy to the Windows clipboard, and gives you easy access to it for later use. It maintains two lists. The Cache contains the most recent 100 clips that you've copied to the clipboard. The Saved list contains only those clips you've selected from the Cache for saving.

CLIP ALL This is a Clip Board Utility, used for Making Multiple Pastings Possible.

Karen's Clipboard Viewer Peek inside your Windows clipboard. See what's waiting for your favorite application, in any of four different data formats (TXT, BMP, WMF and DIB). This handy tool can also erase the clipboard. New with version 2.0: Now runs from the Windows System Tray!

Total Copy- Total Copy is a improved version of Windows' copy-function

Populist is a clipboard utility designed to save time when using any program that requires entering text.

Clipboard Monitor With Clipboard Monitor, you can copy a series of selections to the Clipboard without pasting.

DzSoft Paste & Save is a handy little utility that can save pieces of text on the Clipboard for reuse, before you accidentally overwrite it. Allows to sort the text into three files. Can save all copied text automatically. Has a handy floating toolbar.

Hamsin Clipboard Download FREE A three-in-one easy-to-use clipboard extension utility that allows: tracking clipboard history of the last ten clips. pasting several copied clips automatically one after another. saving favorite or commonly used clips for future pasting.
tracking clipboard history of the last ten clips
pasting several copied clips automatically one after another
saving favorite or commonly used clips for future pasting.

CopyURL is a shell extension that helps you to copy different information from your Internet Shortcut files (entries in the Favorites folder or *.url files) to the clipboard. Then you can simply paste it from clipboard to your e-mails, HTML editor or other documents. It adds commands Copy URL, Copy Link and Copy Name to the shell context menu of Internet Shortcut files.