What makes UnitConverter stand out from many other online converters is an option to add desired converters to your blog or personal website. There is no doubt that many people can make use of this.

Moreover, there is an offline UnitConverter that users can download and use it offline.

Features:

• Free unit converters to convert almost anything to anything.
• Converters are organized in categories etc.
• Embed unit converters onto your site or personal web page.
• Desktop application is also provided.

Check out UnitConverter @ www.unitconverter.org

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To convert, simply upload your image file (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF) which cannot exceed the size of 1MB. Resize and rotate it to achieve the best recognition results, and then click on “Send” button to start the process. Once completed, recognized text will be displayed at the bottom of the same page.

NewOCR supports 29 languages which include Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Features:

• Extract text from scanned documents or images.
• Unlimited uploads, no registration, 100% secure.
• Supported image file formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF (any compression mode).
• Works with image files up to 1 MB in size.
• Multilingual support for 29 languages.
• Optimize image to achieve the best recognition results by resizing and rotation.
• Similar tools: OnlineOCR, FineReaderOnline, Free-ORC and OCRTerminal.

Check out NewOCR @ www.newocr.com

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• Free-ORC: Extract Text From Image Files
• OCRTerminal: Convert Scanned Documents To Text
• TxtNinja: Convert Text into Pictures
• Text2PDF: Create Adobe PDF Files From Text

Features:

• Manipulate your text online.
• Options: Uppercase, Initial Upper/ word, Reverse Words, Lowercase, Initial Upper/ Sentence, Reverse Letters, Flip Text , Strip Spaces, Camel Case.
• Free and no sign up.
• Similar apps: TextTop.us, TextFixer, Alphabetizer and Textris.

Check out UpperCaseIt @ www.uppercaseit.com

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• Free-ORC: Extract Text From Image Files
• FlipTitle: Flip Text Upside Down

As a guest, you can upload files with up to 1 MB in size and 5 pages per hour. Registered users on the other hand can upload files up to 20 MB in size, store docs online, convert files in zip archives and more. The restriction for them is that only the first 5 documents are free to convert. Additional pages will cost you 0.1$ for every page.

Features:

• Convert scanned images into editable format.
• Recognizes documents in 28 languages.
• Handles documents in following formats:  PDF (files including multi-page PDFs), TIF/TIFF (Multipage TIFFs supported), JPEG/JPG, BMP, PCX, PNG, GIF and ZIP.
• Output formats: PDF, MS Word (2003/XP, MS Excel (2003/XP), HTML, RTF and TXT.
• Free, no registration required. Conver files up to 1 MB in size and 5 pages per hour.
• Register to upload files up to 20MB in size, convert zip archives, multipage PDF files, choose recognition languages and output format.
• Similar tools: FineReaderOnline, Free-ORC and OCRTerminal.

Check out OnlineOCR @ www.onlineocr.net

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Additionally, the site has a free public gallery featuring various GIF animations created by other sers.

Features:

• Web based and free GIF animation program.
• Turns YouTube videos into GIFs.
• Convert as many videos as you like.
• Download created GIFs to your computer.
• There is a 10 second limit on video length.
• Check out public library of GIFs created by others.
• Similar tools: Gickr, MakeAGIF, GIFmake and more.

Check out GifSoup @ www.gifsoup.com

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• LooGix: Free Online GIF Animator
• CreateAgif: Free Online Animated Gif Creator
• Text Anim: Easily Create Animated Texts
• SplitGif: Split GIF Animations Online
• SeeNow: Have Fun With Your Photos Online

Features:

• Simple web page to PDF conversion tool.
• Convert as many pages as you like.
• Free, no sign up needed.
• Similar tools: HTML 2 PDF and HTML to PDF Converter.

Check out Html-To-PDF-converter @ www.html-to-pdf-converter.com

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• PrintFriendly: Create Printer-Friendly Webpages in One Click
• Printable Paper : Free Paper Templates

There could be many uses of this tool like for masking your email address, sending confidential info on IMs, posting things on forums which you won’t like search engines to discover and more. It doesn’t require sign up and is easy to use.

Features

• Quickly convert text into pictures online.
• Customize the font type, color and size of the text.
• Get the direct url, forum url and the HTML code of the image.
• No registration required.
• Similar tools: SpamProofEmailGenerator and HideText.

Check out TxtNinja @ www.txtninja.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Free-ORC: Extract Text From Image Files

It supports simple and scientific math functions (sin, cos, log etc), instantly highlights any errors in your input and automatically saves a history of your previous calculations. Simply enter any short or long calculation like 6*(5+10) and hit Enter to calculate. You can give names to your previous calculations (i.e 2+3=5=a) and use them in other calculations (a*2=10). No need to register.

There is also a unit converter that lets you convert between various dimensional units.

Features:

• Easy to use virtual scientific calculator and converter.
• Clean and simple interface.
• Automatically saves history of previous calculation results.
• Give names to previous calculation results and use them in future calculations.
• Convert between various units (distance, currencies, speed, weight etc).
• Save history of previous conversions below.
• No registration needed.
• Similar tools Encalc, eCalc and InstaCalc.

Check out Calcoolate @ www.calcoolate.com

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To use the PDFNewspaper you can either go to the site and create PDF by entering the URL or use provided bookmarklet that allows you to convert any webpage you are on with a single click.

Features:

• Web page to PDF converter.
• Convert as many pages as you like .
• Browser bookmarklet provided.
• Free and no sign up.
• Similar websites: HTML 2 PDF and HTML to PDF Converter.

Check out PDFNewspaper @ www.fivefilters.org/pdf-newspaper

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The application is free and easy to use. To start,  simply register on the site and upload your image, pick a the language and output format and hit “Recognize”. Once the file is converted you can save it on to your computer. Currently you may process up to 50 pages a day with each file being under 10 mb.

Features:

• Online image text extraction tool.
• Lets you process 50 pages a day for free.
• Supported input image formats: BMP, PCX, DCX, JPEG/JPEG, PNG and TIFF/TIF.
• Supported output file formats: Microsoft Word, Excel, RTF, and TXT and PDF.
• The file must not be larger than 10 MB.
• Multilingual recognition: Russian, English, German and French.
• Simple and clutter free design.
• Similar apps: Free-ORC and OCRTerminal.

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Just upload the MIDI file (*.mid) from your computer, adjust the conversion options and hit the “Convert File” button. Then wait for about 10 seconds while the conversion takes place. Download the converted file in MP3 or WAV format onto your computer.

Features:

• Convert MIDI files to MP3/WAV online.
• Control the converison options: sample width, sound system, MP3 bit rate etc.
• No need to sign up.

Check out midi2mp3 @ www.hamienet.com/midi2mp3

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To start, simply go to the site, enter your text and click on feature that you want to apply.

Here is the full list of thing you can do:

• Encode and Decode: URL, URl comp, UTF 8 and base64
• Case Convert: UPPERCASE, lowercase, sWITCH cASE, CameCase and TitleCase.
• Hush your text:  SHA-1, MD5, MD4 Hexadecimal, String bytes and Base64 bytes.
• Evaluate and apply javascript function to the whole text, and  make bookmarlklet.
• Base convert your text in to string, hexadecimal and binary code.
• Find, regexp & replace.
• Other: Trim, Trim lines, Fix Quotes and get Text Statistics.

You can also check other similar apps that we have profiled earlier i.e. TextTop.us, TextFixer, Alphabetizer and Textris.

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Features :

• Simple and easy to use currency converter & calculator.
• No registration required.
• Mid-market rates applicable for more accuracy.
• Premium(paid) service lets you choose any bank (or other financial institution) in the world as the source of rates.
• Use the numeric keyboard to enter the amount.
• Similar sites: Crrncy, ForexFlower, Xurrency and XE.

Check out Curculator @ www.curculator.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Just upload a file from your computer or from another URL, select input and output formats, enter your email and and click “Convert”. You will receive an email with the online download link for the converted file. Your file is kept for 7 days online after the conversion, so make sure you download it within this period.

Features:

• Easily convert anything to anything online.
• Supports almost all types formats including videos, audios, text documents, spreadsheets, images, archives.
• Upload a file from your computer or webpage.
• Receive the download link for the converted file in your email
• File is kept online for 7 days.
• Up to 100 MB file size limit.
• Similar converters: CometDocs, MediaPirate, YouConvertIt and Zamzar and several others.

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To convert a PDF file, simply upload it from your computer, select the conversion format (.doc/.rtf), provide your email to receive the converted file and press “Convert”.

Features:

• Free online accurate PDF To Word converter.
• Preserves as much as possible the formatting and page layout of the original PDF file.
• Upload a PDF document from your computer and receive the converted file in your email.
• No sign up.
• Other similar converters: ConvertPdfToWord and PDFUndoOnline.

Check out PDFtoWord @ www.pdftoword.com

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Apart from translating text into and from text messaging shorthands you can also contribute by submitting a term for inclusion or take tests and quizzes to to see how good you are.
Features:

• Text messaging shorthand translator.
• Lets you translate into and from text lingo.
• The site currently has over 2000 words in database.
• Take tests and quizzes to to see how good you are.
• Contribute terms for inclusion.
• Similar sites: Twonvert and 140it.

Check out Lgdtxtr @ www.lgdtxtr.com (via Techcrunch)

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The application currently supports a PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP or PNG files and can recognize 6 languages (English, German, french, Italian, Dutch and Spanish).

Free-ORC is completely free and the only restrictions are:

- input images must not be larger than 2MB,
- not wider or higher than 5000 pixels and
- at most 10 image uploads per hour.

Features:

• Extract text from photos and scanned documents.
• Images must not be larger than 2MB in size.
• Supports a PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP or PNG files.
• Can recognize 6 languages (English, German, french, Italian, Dutch and Spanish).
• Free and no registration.
• Also have a look at OCRTerminal that can convert scanned documents to text.

Check out Free-ORC @ www.free-ocr.com

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To compress, select a set of files on your computer and then click on the “Zip it!” button. Once the files are compressed you will get a link to download your .zip file. You can also then share that link with others.

Features:

• Compress files online.
• Zip as many files as you like.
• Download compressed file onto your computer or share it with others.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar tools: Zip-Online, OnlineZip and Wobzip.

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Features:

• Online unit conversion tool.
• Convert temperature, volume, distance, weight, area and  speed units (more units and convention options are coming).
• Clutter free and user friendly interface.
• No sign up and free.
• Similar apps: Unit Converter, ConvertCenter and ConvertWorld.

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Click on a flag to make it a default currency, enter the amount and click Enter to convert.

Instead of entering the amount into the field, you can also access it at http://crrncy.com/amount (ex: http://crrncy.com/239)

Currency rates are taken from the European Central Bank (ECB).

Features:

• Convert currency between US Dollars (USD), Euros (EUR), British pounds (GBP) and Swedish kronas (SEK)
• Click on a country flag to make it a default currency
• Currency rates are taken from the European Central Bank (ECB).
• Similar sites: ForexFlower, Xurrency and XE.

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The convention is done automatically meaning that you do not have to manually tell where each table is, the application also tries to match the appearance of converted file to original.

Features:

• Online PDF to Excel converter.
• Convert as many files as you want.
• The conversions are automatic, you do not have manually show where the tables are.
• Keeps output file similar to original as much as possible.
• Free and no registration.

If you frequently need to deal with PDF files then also read our related articleon the cool programs to merge PDFs, convert PDF to DOC, and to PDF printers.

Check out PDFtoExcelOnline @ www.pdftoexcelonline.com

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Sign up to get started. First upload an image file and then click on “YES” to begin the processing. When done download the converted file in multiple text formats (TXT, DOC, RTF).

Service also lets you convert PDF files into Word.

Features:

• Online scan to text converter.
• Convert from JPG, GIF, BMP, TIF image formats into TXT, DOC, RTF text documents.
• Convert from PDF into Word.
• Convert free up to 30 images per day.
• Similar websites: Comombo, Qipit and Scanr.

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Features

• Easily convert YouTube videos to MP3 audio files.
• Option to convert high quality videos too.
• Download the mp3 files after conversion.
• A nice firefox addon to convert directly from the YouTube site.

Check out Video2MP3 @ www.video2mp3.net (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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You can convert 3 pages at a time without registration, signing up for an account will lift all the limitations and won’t require you to enter the email address every time.

Here is a list of online conversions CometDocs can do:

Convert from PDF: (some conversion support OCR conversion for scanned PDF)

PDF to Open Office Writer format
PDF to Open Office Calc format
PDF to Open Office Impress format
PDF to image BMP
PDF to image JPG
PDF to image GIF
PDF to image PNG
PDF to image TIF
PDF to text
PDF to HTML
PDF to MS Word
PDF to MS Excel
PDF to AutoCAD (dwg)
PDF to AutoCAD (dxf)

Convert to PDF:

Bmp to PDF
Word (doc) to PDF
Gif to PDF
htm to PDF
html to PDF
jpeg to PDF
jpg to PDF
log to PDF
mht to PDF
mhtml to PDF
ODF to PDF
ODP to PDFODS to PDF
ODT to PDF
PNG to PDF
PPS to PDF
PPT to PDF
RTF to PDF
SDA to PDF
SDC to PDF
SDD to PDF
SDS to PDF
SDW to PDF
SXC to PDF
SXD to PDF
SXI to PDF
SXM to PDF
SXW to PDF
TIF to PDF
TIFF to PDF
TXT to PDF
WRI to PDF
XLS to PDF

Convert from XPS:

Convert to Open Office Writer format
Convert to Open Office Calc format
Convert to Open Office Impress format
Convert to image BMP
Convert to image JPG
Convert to image GIF
Convert to image PNG
Convert to image TIF
Convert to text
Convert to HTML
Convert to MS Word
Convert to MS Exsel

Other File Conversions:

Excel to CSV (XLSTOCSV)
XML to LINT (XMLLINT)
HTML to RSS (HTMLTORSS)
ASC TO PDB
ASC TO EBC
UNIX TO DOS
DOS TO UNIX
MAC TO UNIX
FIX TO DELIM
DELIM TO FIX
CSV TO DELIM
SORT FILE
PDF INFO
COMPARE FILES
MP3 INFO
FILEINFO
ICONV

Features:

• Comprehensive file and data converter app.
• Performs over 50 different file conversions, see list above.
• Non registered users can convert only 3 pages at a time.
• Registering on the site lifts all the limitations.
• Free and simple to use.
• Similar web tools: MediaPirate, YouConvertIt, Zamzar and several others.

Check out CometDocs @  www.cometdocs.com

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You can also use it as an online writer where you type and avoid keying errors by listening to your text, or simply use it to improve your typing speed and spelling.

Features:

• Hear what you type.
• Can reads the text as you type or per line.
• Make it read the whole text or just the highlighted part.
• Doesn’t require sign up.

Check out Text-to-Speech @ speech.japplis.com

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• WriteBoard: A Collaborative Text Editor
• Write Like An Egyptian

Features:

• Online unit conversion tool.
• Supported conversions; angle, area, bits & bytes, density, electric current, energy, force, fuel consumption, length, mass, power, pressure, speed, temperature, time and volume.
• Quick, simple and easy to use.
• Similar sites: ConvertCenter and ConvertWorld.

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• TimeZoneConverter: Instant Time Zone Converter
• PDFNewspaper: Web Page To PDF Converter

Features:

• Online binary converter.
• Convert as much text as you like.
• Add Space, Dash or Dot separators.
• Also see Hex and Octal converters.

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• TimeZoneConverter: Instant Time Zone Converter
• PDFNewspaper: Web Page To PDF Converter

Features:

• Convert web page to pdf file online.
• Convert as many times as you need
• Free, no registration. Nothing to download or install.
• Similar website: HTML 2 PDF.

Check out HTML to PDF Converter @ www.html-pdf-converter.com

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For instance, I would like to know, how are you doing? was converted to I wld like 2 know, how r u doing? and helped me pack the same info in 17.5% less characters. Once you are finished typing, you can submit your message to Twitter right from the website by entering your Twitter username and password.

Features:

• Converts tweet to SMS lingo and saves space.
• Shows the percentage of characters saved.
• Sends tweet direct from the website.
• Easy to use and free.
• Similar tools:140it.

Check out Twonvert @ Twonvert (Contributed by ROW from www.reviewofweb.com)

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• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone
• Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL

The process is simple, just drag and place provided bookmarklet on to your browser and whenever you need to condense your text on Twitter simple click on it. The 140it will make the substitutions and fit your Tweet in 140 characters.

Features:

• Condense long text to fit into Twitter limit.
• Browser bookmarklet provided.
• Simple and easy to use.
• No registration.

See the demo below:

Check out 140it @ www.140it.com (via techcrunch)

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Currently users can send up to 5 messages a day. All created messages will be hosted on BlindSpeak for 30 day period and then deleted.

Features:

• Convert text to speech and send to any email address.
• Recipient gets both an MP3 file and a link to the flash player.
• Send at most 5 messages per day.
• Play and hear your messages before sending them.
• Messages are stored online for 30 Days.
• No registration needed.
• For similar apps see MakeUseOf’s text to speech section.

Check out BlindSpeak @ www.blindspeak.com (via webware)

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All you need to convert time from one time zone to another time zone is to select the ‘From’ city from the first drop down and select the ‘To’ city from the second drop down and click on ‘Convert Time’ button.

Features:

• Easy time zone converter tool.
• Converts time between two cities.
• Considers daylight saving time (DST).
• Considers local time zones.
• Accepts past and future dates.
• Free easy to use.
• Similar websites EasyTZ, Gchart and Daylight Saving Time.

Check out Time Zone Converter @ www.timeanddate.com (by ROW from www.reviewofweb.com)

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Features:

• Online word and name speller.
• Uses standard NATO phonetic alphabet.
• Simple and easy to use.
• Similar website: Phonetic

Check out OverThePhone @ www.reviewofweb.com

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This conversion tool allows you to convert audio files, video files, and even some office documents. Better yet, you can choose to upload files directly from your computer or grab the file directly from the URL (Youtube, Break, Veoh, Metacafe, etc).

MediaPirate offers quick and easy conversion with many features in an easy-to-use interface. You get 10 conversions per day and able to upload upto 100MB files for free. If you become a premium user and get even more features.

Advanced users can tweak files to their liking by applying different audio and video codecs, changing bitrate and resolution.

The files can be converted to a variety of formats:

Audio (any to any):

mp3, ogg, wav, wma (only decoding supported)

Video (any to any):

3g2 ,3gp, avi, flv, m4v, mkv, mov, mp4, mpg, mpeg, psp (only encoding supported), rm, wmv.

Office

doc to odt or pdf
xls to ods or pdf
ppt to odp or pdf
odt to doc or pdf
ods to xls or pdf
odp to ppt or pdf

Feature overview:

• Web based file converter.
• Supports huge list of file formats, see list above.
• Supported video sites Youtube, Blip.tv, Break.com, Dailymotion, LiveVideo, MetaCafe, MyVideo.de.
• Free account lets you do  10 conversions a day and upload 100MB files for free
• Desktop client and Firefox Addon are awailable.
• Convert Audio, Video, and  Office files.
• For more similar tools check out MakeUseOf converters section.

Check out MediaPirate @ www.mediapirate.org

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If you want to check out spelling of words offline then you can download desktop version of Phonetic and install it on your system (Linux/Windows).

Features:

• Translate words into nato phonetic alphabet online.
• Desktop (Linux or Windows) version also available .
• No registration.

On the other hand, if you just want to print out (or save) the NATO phonetic alphabet somewhere on your PC just grab it from below:

A – Alpha
B – Bravo
C – Charlie
D – Delta
E – Echo
F – Foxtrot
G – Golf
H – Hotel
I – India
J – Juliet
K – Kilo
L – Lima
M – Mike
N – November
O – Oscar
P – Papa
Q – Quebec
R – Romeo
S – Sierra
T – Tango
U – Uniform
V – Victor
W – Whiskey
X – X-ray
Y – Yankee
Z – Zulu

Visit Phonetic @ www.geocities.com/phonetic (via downloadsquad.com)

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Features:

• Convert any text to upper case, lower case, proper case or sentence case.
• No registration needed..
• Similar websites: TextTop.us, Alphabetizer.

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I particularly like the feature which converts email address to an image. It looks pretty neat and if you have a blog, you can use it to display your contact information and at the same time prevent the spam bots from copying it. Much better than writing your email address in ‘abc at gmail dot com’ format.

Also see SpamProofEmailGenerator a similar tool that  we have profiled earlier .

Check out Hidetext @ www.hidetext.net (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Features:

• Flip text upside down.
• No sign up needed.
• Other sites weher you can flip text: TextTop.us (with more options).

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Features:

• Convert PDF to Word online.
• Convert as many files as you like.
• No restriction on the individual PDF file size.
• No registration required.
• Similar tools: PDFUndoOnline and Primo.

Check out ConvertPdfToWord @ www.convertpdftoword.net

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Once the conversion is complete you can:

- playback and listen to it online,
- download and store the recording on your PC,
- podcast it,
- or embed it as an audio object on any site and let others play it as well

Features:

• Convert websites, RSS feeds, blogs and documents to audio.
• Do as many conversions as you like.
• Convert DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, PDF, RTF and HTML docs to speech.
• Play and listen to converted recordings online.
• Download recording as an MP3 file.
• Similar websites: YakiToMe and SpokenText.

Check out iSpeech @ www.ispeech.org

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