If you are a business professional or even a student, you might come across situations where you need to send a document to your client or your lecturer. The most convenient option for you is to scan the document and send it. But there may be times when you are not in the office or [...]
If you have a bulk of physical documents or books lying around taking up precious space, you could scan them and then recycle them. But the manual scanning is quite time-consuming. Here to take care of this for you is a service called 1DollarScan. 1DollarScan is a new service that digitizes your documents for you. [...]
Finding specific text within documents that span over many pages is not an easy task. But thanks to optical character recognition (OCR) technology, the task is made much simpler. A phone app that lets you do this easily is OfficeDrop’s Paper-To-Go. It is a free to use phone application for Android devices. Sized at 3MB, [...]
Due to the clutter they create, handling many physical pages is not easy. One of the most common problems faced is forgetting where you placed a certain document. A solution to this is to convert all of your physical documents into electronic ones and then storing them on your computer or handheld device. This is [...]
Barcodes and QR Codes can store a lot of information within themselves. Just like you can store information in these codes, you can also extract information from them. One of the tools that can be used to read barcodes and QR codes is ZBar. It is a free to use tool that has versions for [...]
Scanning a file for viruses cannot be done without an antivirus program. But what do you do if you are on a public computer without an antivirus program and do not have the user privileges to install one? The answer is Jotti’s Malware Scan. Jotti’s Malware Scan is a simple and free to use web virus [...]
OCR technology lets you convert images into editable text documents. Thanks to OCR you can easily modify documents and correct their errors without having to retype the entire thing. OCRConvert is one online resource that lets you make use of OCR technology. It is a basic OCR web tool that will help you convert text, [...]
While there are many tools to check your files for viruses, there are not many trusted sources to check whether a website has malware on it. You could visit the malware infected site and the malware could penetrated your computer without your antivirus or you knowing about it. This is a serious problem which URL [...]
For full-time personal security it’s unlikely any web-based application will replace your desktop anti-virus any time soon: needing such software is simply a reality for users of Windows-based computers. But if you’re a Linux or Mac user wanting to quickly scan a file for viruses before sending it to a friend, or a brave Windows [...]
Website owners should always maintain their sites malware-free in order to ensure the security of their users or customers. QualysGuard Malware Detection is a free web service that scans your websites regularly for malware infections. It provides automated notifications in case of a detection and identifies the vulnerable code snippet for efficient removal. To utilize [...]