To cleanup your text using this tool, simply paste the block of text in the “Input” text box in the site. After clicking the “Pretty it up!” button, the newly-formatted text will then appear in the “Output” box. Also, a log will show the changes done to your text so you’ll know exactly what the tool did to your text. This tool works smartly as well as it doesn’t cause an opening smart quote to render incorrectly by an unpaired smart quote from a previous paragraph.

All in all, CleanText.org is a pretty useful tool for cleaning up text if you handle a lot of documents with quotation marks and em-dashes.

Features:

• Cleanup texts with quotation marks and em-dashes.
• Transforms double quotes into smart quotes.
• Transforms consecutive dashes into a more proper em-dash.
• Free, no signup is required.
• Similar Tool: GoFormat and Pretty Printer.

Check out CleanText @ www.cleantext.org

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CleanText: Text Clean Up & Formatting Tool Online

• TypeTester: Tool For Comparing Fonts Online
• Shutterborg: Edit Documents Online
• EtherPad: Collaborate On Text Docs Online In Real-Time
• CompareMyDocs: Compare And Merge Documents Online
• Zamzar

(update: apparently Microsoft Office has an option to change the entire document in capital letters to lower case. It even does one better and changes it to sentence case. You just have to select text you want to change and then press Shift+F3)

Goformat.com, on the other hand, does have this online text formatting ability. This site isn’t an online word processor, nor does it aim to be. Instead, Goformat.com offers a number of ways to quickly format a block of text. Whether you want to transform all letters to upper or lower case, remove all instances of annoying characters such as “>” (which tends to show up in forwarded emails), or simply add a capital letter to the beginning of every sentence, Goformat.com can do the job quickly and easily.

Like the idea, but concerned about using a web app to edit text you want to keep secure? Don’t be. The site is built entirely using Javascript, and sends no data to any server anywhere.

While the text editing tools described above are what opens when you go to GoFormat.com, some other tools can be found by clicking the “Tools” link at the top of the page. These include a random password generator, a URL formatting tool, a tool that can reverse backwards text and a nifty timezone map.

Features

• Browser-based formatting tool.
• Change all-caps to no caps and vice-versa.
• Remove all instances of special characters, such as “>”.
• Reverse text.
• Random password generator.
• Timezone map.
• Similar tools: UpperCaseIt, TextTop.us, TextFixer, Alphabetizer and Textris.

Check out GoFormat @ www.goformat.com

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Goformat: Quick Online Text Formatting Tool

• TxtNinja: Convert Text into Pictures
• UpperCaseIt: Uppercase, Lowercase & Reverse Text Online
• TypeTester: Tool For Comparing Fonts Online
• Text2PDF: Create Adobe PDF Files From Text
• NewOCR: Recognizes Text From Images

To use YourNameInJapanese, type in your name in the box and hit the “<i>Translate</i>” button. You can choose from a few different character styles to see how differently the characters are written. The site also teaches you how your name is pronounced correctly. Then you can download your translated name as an image file. The Japanese write foreign names phonetically. As a result, it is not always possible to have your name translated into Japanese characters with its exact pronunciation. Nevertheless, this tool is a dictionary containing about 3,700 names.

Features:

• Lets you know your translated name in Japanese.
• Shows you how your name will be written using kanji characters.
• Free service; no signup required.
• Supports about 3,700 names.

Check out YourNameInJapanese @ www.yournameinjapanese.com

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YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online

• Write Like An Egyptian
• TheNameEngine: Hear Proper Name Pronunciations of Public Figures
• PronounceNames: Learn Correct Name Pronounciations
• FlipMyText: Flip Text Upside Down
• WordSpy: Dictionary of New Words

To use this app, start by inputting the text that you need to memorize into the field box. You may also enter several items simultaneously using the bulk function. Then go to the memorize tab to view the items that you need to memorize. You can choose to show only the first letter of the words or add blank spaces to the letters and see if you can still remember them. After memorizing, you can test your progress with a flash-card style quiz.

Although you cannot create an account to save your work, you can still save the app as an HTML page to use offline. MemorizeNow is a useful study aid for anyone who need to remember large amounts of texts.

Features:

• Memorize words, passages and speeches easily.
• Input many memory items at the same time.
• Show only the first letter of the word or add blank spaces.
• Test yourself if you memorized all the items using flash cards.
• Save your work and use it offline.

Check out MemorizeNow @ www.memorizenow.com

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MemorizeNow: Helps Memorizing Long Passages Of Texts

• YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online
• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• WriteBoard: A Collaborative Text Editor
• Write Like An Egyptian

Once you sign up, you can create your own flash-based tag cloud and customize its appearance. Tagul has options for custom shapes selection and multiple fonts in one cloud. You can also set different effects like text inside text, rollover effects, vibrant tags and background colors, and more. Once done, you can save it and embed it to your blog for others to see.

Tagul is an ideal app for bloggers and webmasters looking for unique ways to display their online content.

Features:

• Free to use.
• Generate tag clouds to replace ordinary tag clouds.
• Each tag is linked with a URL and is “clickable” which can be used for navigation.
• Has custom shapes selection and multiple fonts.
• Create tag clouds that have different shapes and features like text inside text and rollover effects.
• Embed and share your tag cloud.
• Similar tools: Similar webistes: TagCrowd, Wordle and ZoomClouds.
• Also see our releted articles:

  - 5 Unique Websites with Very Useful Tag Clouds.

-  How To Create and Add A Tag Cloud To Blogger Blog.

Check out Tagul @ www.tagul.com

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Tagul: Create Beautiful Tag Clouds For Your Blog Or Website

• TagCrowd: Tool For Generating Tag Clouds Online
• ScrollBox: Embed RSS Feeds Onto Your Blog
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• Web2PDF: ‘Save as PDF’ Button for Your Blog

Preview the page in the browser or edit the HTML source code from the top left corner. After you are done click “Save file now” to download it to your computer.

Features:

• Online WYSIWYG HTML editor.
• Create a new page from scratch or upload and edit an existing page from your computer.
• Includes most common features of an offline HTML editor such as Word-like rich text editing and formatting, inserting images, media files etc.
• Preview page in the browser for different screen resolutions: 640×480, 800×600 and 1024×768 pixels.
• View and edit the HTML source code.
• Save HTML pages to your computer.
• Free, no sign up.
• Similar tool: YourDraft.

Check out Online HTML Editor @ www.online-html-editor.org

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Online-HTML-Editor: A Free Online WYSIWYG Editor

• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• TextFixer: Text to Capitals, Remove Line Breaks & Whitespaces etc.
• FriendPaste: Simple Text Sharing
• WriteBoard: A Collaborative Text Editor
• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others

There are various text formatting options like changing the font color, adding bullet points, adding links and images, and more. Once you are done with the formatting, you can publish it after giving it a custom url. This url can be shared easily. So overall, it’s a quick way to edit and modify few lines of text/HTML code and share it online.

Other features include automatic text backup, export as PDF files, direct import from a file or a word document and the ability to embed video and images into the note.

Features:

• Simple web based text editor.
• Share the custom url after publishing your note.
• Various text formatting options available.
• Auto-backup of text every 3 minutes.
• Export as PDF files and import text from offline docs.
• Similar tools: Txtb.in, cl1p and TextSave.

Check out Justpaste.it @ www.justpaste.it (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Justpaste.it: Simple Online Text Editing Tool

• Txtb.in: Save & Share Short Text Notes Online
• TextSave: Quickly Save & Share Text Online
• J.otDown: Simple Web Based Notepad
• HeyPasteIt: Simplest App For Sharing Text
• Yanobs : Web-based Notepad

One of the best solutions to this problem is to store important notes online. While such applications do exist, many tend to be too fancy and bandwidth-hogging. Note-taking is meant to help you, not slow you down. Today I came across basic note-taking online service SimpleText.ws

It is a web tool designed to store ‘human sized’ text i.e. text which you write as notes, and not as lengthy thesis papers. While the site is secure, the author suggests people not to store any sensitive information (such as credit card numbers) on the site – better safe than sorry.

To get started, create an account by clicking the ‘Sign In’ button on the homepage. If you have a Google account, you can use it to sign in. Here’s how the note panel looks like:

As you can see, the entire panel has a very simple text storage interface, much similar to Notepad. You can type your notes and not worry about losing them. Unlike manual syncing, SimpleText.ws merges your changes so you’ll never lose data.

Features:

• Take notes and store them digitally.
• Simple and clutter free design.
• For basic writing and notes. No for huge files.
• Light Security. Not for sensitive information, credit cards, etc.
• Open source, suitable for self hosting, a public API.

Check out Simple Text @ www.SimpleText.ws

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SimpleText: Take Notes & Store Them Online

• Txtb.in: Save & Share Short Text Notes Online
• TextSave: Quickly Save & Share Text Online
• Justpaste.it: Simple Online Text Editing Tool
• J.otDown: Simple Web Based Notepad
• HeyPasteIt: Simplest App For Sharing Text

You can also quickly paste the copied text, by clicking on the middle button of your mouse. This add-on can be very useful for those whose daily work includes a lot of text copy-pasting.

Features:

• Extremely fast way to copy paste text chunks.
• Copy text to your clipboard simply by highlighting it.
• Desktop tool available as well.
• Free and easy to use.

Check out ClickCutter AutoCopy @ addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14077 (via http://blog.go2web20.net)

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ClickCutter AutoCopy: The Easiest Way To Copy/Paste Text

• WhiteNoise: Relax & Listen to White Noise on iPhone
• Txtb.in: Save & Share Short Text Notes Online
• TinyPaste : Quickly Get Shareable URL for any Text
• TextSave: Quickly Save & Share Text Online
• SiteLauncher: Launch Favorite Websites with Simple Shortcuts

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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NewOCR: Recognizes Text From Images

• FineReaderOnline: Web Based Image Text Extractor
• 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

When all changes are made, CompareMyDocs provides a download link to a final version of document that incorporates all changes. You can download and save the document back to your computer as a Word document or RichText file. The site is completely free and doesn’t require sign up.

Demo video:

Features:

• Compare, recombine and merge documents online.
• Supported document formats: .doc, .docx and .rtf.
• Compare upto 6 versions of the same document.
• Save finalized version of document as a Word or RichText file.
• Quick, simple to use, free, and no registration.
• Similar tool: CompareMyFiles.

Check out CompareMyDocs @ www.secure2.textflow.com/comparemydocs (via Webware)

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CompareMyDocs: Compare And Merge Documents Online

• EtherPad: Collaborate On Text Docs Online In Real-Time
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• XY WriteIt : Collaborate on Text Documents with Others
• WriteBoard: A Collaborative Text Editor
• WikiMatrix: Compare Wiki Platforms

ASCIIPaint provides you with an editor where you can pick a character and then easily draw lines, boxes and fill selected areas. Once ther ASCII is ready it can be shared via URL and saved onto your computer as a text file.

Features:

• Draw an ASCII art online.
• Provides an editor where you can easily select any character and then draw lines, boxes, and fill in selected areas.
• Share created arts with others.
• Save onto you computer as text commented in six different styles.
• Similar websites: Text-Image, ASCIIPoster and PicASCII.

Check out ASCIIPaint @ www.asciipaint.com

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ASCIIPaint: Draw ASCII Art Online

• YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online
• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• XSketch : Online Multiplayer Pictionary Game
• WriteBoard: A Collaborative Text Editor

To encrypt, simply enter your text and password into provided fields and then click on “Encrypt the message” button. There is also an option to set the expiration time after which the text will become non decryptable.

Features:

• Encrypt your text right inside your browser.
• Your text will be password protected and encrypted with secure XXTEA block cipher algorithm.
• Set the expiration time after which the text will become non decryptable.
• Currently you can encrypt no more than 32 kilobytes of data (10 printed pages of text) at one session.
• Free and no sign up.
• Similar tools: Crypo, Encodor, InfoEncrypt and File Encryptor.

Check out SafeMess @ www.safemess.com

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SafeMess: Browser Based Text Encryption Tool

• YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online
• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• WriteBoard: A Collaborative Text Editor
• Write Like An Egyptian

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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UpperCaseIt: Uppercase, Lowercase & Reverse Text Online

• TxtNinja: Convert Text into Pictures
• Text2PDF: Create Adobe PDF Files From Text
• NewOCR: Recognizes Text From Images
• Goformat: Quick Online Text Formatting Tool
• Free-ORC: Extract Text From Image Files

Simply click on your preferred dummy text to see it on the right side. You can increase/decrease the size of the text by the number of words or characters and/or divide the text into paragraphs. In advanced options, there are settings to adjust font family, font size, style and more.

Features:

• Dummy text generator.
• 10 different dummy texts available.
• Option to increase/decrease the size of text by number of words or characters.
• Divide text into paragraphs.
• Similar tools: Lorem2 and AdhesionText.

Check out BlindTextGenerator @ www.blindtextgenerator.com

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BlindTextGenerator: Generate Dummy Text

• AdhesionText: Dummy Text Generator
• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• WebPagetest: Test Load Speed Of Your Website
• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points
• ViewLike.us: Test Website In Different Resolutions

Fliptext can come in useful when you need to create strong passwords, encrypt download links or post messages online so that only few people can read it. Similarly, you can “unflip” any text written upside down using this tool.

Features:

• Flip your text upside down and backwards.
• Free, no registration needed to flip the text.
• Similar online tools: FlipMyText and FlipTitle.

Check out Fliptext.org @ www.fliptext.org

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Fliptext.org: Write Text Upside Down And Backwards

• YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online
• Write Like An Egyptian
• WordCountTool: Tool For Counting Words in Text
• FlipTitle: Flip Text Upside Down
• FlipMyText: Flip Text Upside Down

Features

• Quickly and easily compare code online.
• Just copy, paste and hit compare.
• Compare side-by-side or inline.
• Also remove empty lines and extra white spaces from the text.
• Similar tool: CompareMyFiles.

Check out Quick Diff @ www.quickdiff.com (via Download Squad) (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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QuickDiff: Compare Text & Code Online

• TextFixer: Text to Capitals, Remove Line Breaks & Whitespaces etc.
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• Online-HTML-Editor: A Free Online WYSIWYG Editor
• HostMonk: Comparing Hosting Providers Made Simple
• FriendPaste: Simple Text Sharing

Here is how it works:

1. Download and print provided font template.
2. Fill in the template with your own handwriting following simple guidelines.
3. Scan completed template and save it in PNG or GIF format.
4. Upload the scanned image to FontCapture.com
5. Finally preview the template and get back your own, ready to use font.

Features:

• Create fonts from your own handwriting.
• No download or installation needed.
• Scanner and printer required.
• Create as many fonts as you like.
• No sign up required to create the font.
• Similar web tools: YourFonts, FontStruct and BitFontMaker.

Check out FontCapture @ www.fontcapture.com (via Lifehacker)

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FontCapture: Turn Your Handwriting into Font For Free

• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• TypeTester: Tool For Comparing Fonts Online
• BitFontMaker: Online Pixel Font Creator
• WhatTheFont: Recognize the Font from any Image
• Typekit: Online Font Library For Your Website

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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TxtNinja: Convert Text into Pictures

• NewOCR: Recognizes Text From Images
• Goformat: Quick Online Text Formatting Tool
• FineReaderOnline: Web Based Image Text Extractor
• UpperCaseIt: Uppercase, Lowercase & Reverse Text Online
• Text2PDF: Create Adobe PDF Files From Text

Features:

• Collection of browser based text editing tools.
• Huge number of nice tools available.
• Use any of the tools without the need to sign up.
• Javascript should be enabled in the browser.
• Free and no sign up.

You can also check other similar apps that we have profiled earlier such as TextTop.us, Text Utilities, TextFixer, Alphabetizer, Textop.us and Textris.

Check out MyTextTools @  www.mytexttools.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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MyTextTools: Web Based Text Manipulation Tools

• WordCountTool: Tool For Counting Words in Text
• TextFixer: Text to Capitals, Remove Line Breaks & Whitespaces etc.
• CountOnIt: Count Words in PDF, Text, HTML, XML & CSV Files
• CompareMyFiles: Compare Two Text Files Online
• Citatoe: Store Your Favourite Quotes & Citations Online

All you have to do is paste a list of names onto provided field and then click on the “Pick Random Line” button. The application will then randomly pick and display the name.

Features:

• Helps you randomly pick a winner from a list of names.
• Save picked names during session.
• Option to pre-randomize the list.
• Similar web tool: Random Name Picker.

Check out Random Line Picker @ www.my-i-p.com/Pick_Random_Line.html (via Lifehacker.com)

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Random Line Picker: Easily Pick a Winner From a List

• Random Name Picker
• YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online
• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• WriteBoard: A Collaborative Text Editor

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.

Check out FineReaderOnline @ www.finereaderonline.com

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FineReaderOnline: Web Based Image Text Extractor

• NewOCR: Recognizes Text From Images
• 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

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.

Check out Text Utilities @ http://streetpc.free.fr/text

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Text Utilities: Manipulate Your Text Online

• YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online
• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• WriteBoard: A Collaborative Text Editor
• Write Like An Egyptian

There is no download and no registration required. Doing a right-click on the underlined word shows you the suggestions to fix the text.

Features:

• Online grammar and spelling checker.
• Suggests styling as well.
• No registration or download required.
• Light-weight and easy to use interface.
• Similar sites: Spellify, Orangoo, Spellist, WebSourceIt and SpellJax.

Check out AfterTheDeadline @ www.polishmywriting.com (via DownloadSquad.com)

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AfterTheDeadline: Ouick Grammar Checking Site

• ESLAssistant: Correct Grammatical Errors In Your English
• YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online
• Spellify: Automatic Spell Checking
• SpellCheck: Quick Spell Check Tool
• Common Errors In English: Lists Commonly Misused English Words

Additionally you can also manipulate text into Upper, Lower or Proper Case.

Features:

• Spell check text or a single word online.
• Include up to 20,000 characters at once to check for spelling mistakes.
• Get spelling suggestions and apply them to your text.
• Manipulate text into Upper, Lower or Proper Case.
• Similar websites: Spellify, Orangoo, Spellist, WebSourceIt and SpellJax.

Check out SpellCheck @ www.spellcheck.net

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SpellCheck: Quick Spell Check Tool

• Spellify: Automatic Spell Checking
• AfterTheDeadline: Ouick Grammar Checking Site
• YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online
• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online

Ready fonts can be downloaded or published on BiTFont Museum for others to see. BiTFont Museum is a large text font gallery that hosts fonts created by users like you. The fonts are free to download.

Features:

• Ue pixel font creator to create your own font online.
• Create fronts from scratch or import and edit existing fonts.
• Preview each character as you go along.
• Save ready fonts to your computer.
• View fonts of others and download whatever you like.
• Similar websites: FontStruct and YourFonts.

Check out BitfontMaker @ www.pentacom.jp/soft/ex/font

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BitFontMaker: Online Pixel Font Creator

• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• TypeTester: Tool For Comparing Fonts Online
• FontCapture: Turn Your Handwriting into Font For Free
• WhatTheFont: Recognize the Font from any Image
• Typekit: Online Font Library For Your Website

LiveTyping text recorder is free and doesn’t require any registration. Although it should be mentioned that registered can also store their livetypings online and replay them at anytime later.

To start simply start typing the text into provided field. Then customize the text font, size, speed and click on “ENLIVEN” button. Your recording will be processed and replayed for you online.

Features:

• Record your typing.
• Customize text font, size, speed of recordings.
• Share them by forwarding a link or embedding on your site and blog.
• Store all your recordings in one place online (registration needed).
• Similar site: FuzzMail.

Check out LiveTyping @ www.livetyping.com (via Profy)

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LiveTyping: Online Text Recorder

• YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online
• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• Yodio: Give Voice to your Pictures and Stories
• WriteBoard: A Collaborative Text Editor

You can access the text anytime online or share it with others by forwarding the URL.

Features:

• Share text snippets online.
• Free, instant, no sign up.
• Paste your text and access it online.
• Share the text with others by forwarding its URL.

Check out HeyPasteIT @ www.heypasteit.com

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HeyPasteIt: Simplest App For Sharing Text

• Txtb.in: Save & Share Short Text Notes Online
• TextSave: Quickly Save & Share Text Online
• Justpaste.it: Simple Online Text Editing Tool
• J.otDown: Simple Web Based Notepad
• Yanobs : Web-based Notepad

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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Free-ORC: Extract Text From Image Files

• NewOCR: Recognizes Text From Images
• FineReaderOnline: Web Based Image Text Extractor
• OCRTerminal: Convert Scanned Documents To Text
• Text2PDF: Create Adobe PDF Files From Text
• OnlineOCR: Convert Scanned Documents to Editable Text

Apart from flip text, it also provides you with great tools for performing different operations. The wide range of tools include HTML Editor, 3D Text, Tattoo Maker, Word Count, Acronyms, Ice Text, Symbols, Text Reverse, CSS codes etc.

Features:

• Flip text upside down.
• Other tools include Word Count, Acronyms, Ice Text, Symbols, Text Reverse etc.
• Free and easy to use, no registration required.
• Other sites where you can flip text online: TextTop.us and FlipTitle.

Check out FlipMyText @ www.flipmytext.com/ (by Srikanth AD from Firefox Ninjas )

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FlipMyText: Flip Text Upside Down

• YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online
• Write Like An Egyptian
• WordCountTool: Tool For Counting Words in Text
• TinyTags: Create Tag Graphic With Your Own Text
• Fliptext.org: Write Text Upside Down And Backwards

When you’re done, you may print out your graffiti text and/or share it online with others by publishing it in the site’s Image Gallery which contains real-life graffiti images.

Features:

• Cool graffiti text maker.
• Apply different effects, change text size, play around with colors, and more.
• Print out your graffiti text or publish and share it in the Image Gallery.
• Check out real-life graffiti images.

Go to GraffitiCreator @ www.graffiticreator.net

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GraffitiCreator: Create Graffiti Style Writings

• Wordle : Create Fancy “Word Clouds” from Text
• Word Mosaic: Make Cool Word Mosaic Images
• PsykoPaint: Turns Your Pictures Into Awesome Paintings
• YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online
• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting

You can access and edit your text later at the permanent link provided in the address bar of your browser (ex: http://j.otdown.com/23Apr09/cfg4xf/zb) or share the read-only version of the text with others by clicking the “Share” button.

Features:

• Simple Internet notepad.
• Start typing, your text is saved automatically when you take a break.
• Access and edit your text from the permanent link you see in your browser’s address bar.
• Share the read-only version with other people.
• Other web-based notepad apps: JottIt, Npad and Luminotes.

Check out J.otDown @ http://j.otdown.com

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J.otDown: Simple Web Based Notepad

• Txtb.in: Save & Share Short Text Notes Online
• TextSave: Quickly Save & Share Text Online
• Justpaste.it: Simple Online Text Editing Tool
• HeyPasteIt: Simplest App For Sharing Text
• Yanobs : Web-based Notepad

It’s a simple website where either you could type in a line or paste multiple paragraphs in its extended version, and it would immediately provide suggestions for misspelled words. And it does spell check in multiple languages too.

Features

• Automatic online spell check.
• Paste or type text or multiple paragraphs.
• Immediate pop up of correct words/suggestions.
• Support for different languages.
• Download and use it on your website to spell check filled web forms.
• Similar tools: Orangoo, Spellist, WebSourceIt and SpellJax.

Check out Spellify @ www.spellify.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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Spellify: Automatic Spell Checking

• SpellCheck: Quick Spell Check Tool
• AfterTheDeadline: Ouick Grammar Checking Site
• YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online
• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online

WriteBoard was created by 37signals a company known for developing highly popular productivity and task manager apps like BaseCamp.

Getting started is easy, simply name your writeboard, add password & email and then click on the “Create the Whiteboard” button. Once the whiteboard is created you can easily invite others to contribute by forwarding them a URL.

Features

• Collaborative text editor which lets you to collaborate on a text document online.
• Compare different versions of the same document.
• Easily roll back to a previous version.
• Subscribe to RSS feed of the document to get notified of the changes.
• Similar tools: EtherPad, XY WriteIt, Co-ment and ShowDocument.

Check out Writeboard @ www.writeboard.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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WriteBoard: A Collaborative Text Editor

• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• WordCountTool: Tool For Counting Words in Text
• Online-HTML-Editor: A Free Online WYSIWYG Editor
• MyTextFile: Minimalist Online Text Editor
• MonkeyTex : Online LaTex Editor

PasteHTML lets you do just that; it’s a free service that lets you easily publish html pages online without registration. Copy and paste your HTML code into the text area, fill out the captcha and click on the “Create page” link to publish it online. Thats’ it.

Features:

• Free tool for publishing HTML pages and text online.
• Service is free, pages have no ads and are kept online for as long as necessary.
• Publish as many pages as you need.

Check out PasteHTML @ www.pastehtml.com

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PasteHTMl: Easily Publish HTML Pages

• FriendPaste: Simple Text Sharing
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• Txtb.in: Save & Share Short Text Notes Online
• TinyPaste : Quickly Get Shareable URL for any Text
• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others

You can apply different fonts to the text sample and compare them in plain view, bold, italic and more. Change the sample text, text size, alignment, colour, decoration etc., in each of 3 text columns and see the difference.

Features:

• Compare fonts side by side online.
• Edit the sample text in the text area or insert your own text.
• Change text size, alignment, color, decoration, word space etc.,
• Apply settings from one column to another
• Free, instant comparison.
• Similar tool: FontPicker.

Check out TypeTester @ www.typetester.org

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TypeTester: Tool For Comparing Fonts Online

• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• FontCapture: Turn Your Handwriting into Font For Free
• BitFontMaker: Online Pixel Font Creator
• 1001FreeFonts: Free Quality Fonts For Windows & Mac
• WhatTheFont: Recognize the Font from any Image

Features:

• Create Adobe PDF files from text file for free.
• Download ans save generated PDF files to your computer.
• For more PDF tools check out PDF section.

Check out Text2PDF @ www.text2pdf.co.cc

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Text2PDF: Create Adobe PDF Files From Text

• NewOCR: Recognizes Text From Images
• Free-ORC: Extract Text From Image Files
• FineReaderOnline: Web Based Image Text Extractor
• Web2PDF: ‘Save as PDF’ Button for Your Blog
• UpperCaseIt: Uppercase, Lowercase & Reverse Text Online

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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Text-to-Speech: Hear What You Are Typing

• YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online
• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• YakiToMe : Convert Text Files to Speech
• WriteBoard: A Collaborative Text Editor

The application is provided by University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Features:

• Write your name in Egyptian hieroglyphs.
• Hieroglyphs presented in a vertical form.
• Save name image on to your computer.
• Free tool, provided by University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaelogy and Anthropology.

Try Write Like an Egyptian @ www.upennmuseum.com/hieroglyphsreal.cgi (via Labnol)

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Write Like An Egyptian

• YourNameInJapanese: Write Your Name In Japanese Online
• FlipMyText: Flip Text Upside Down
• WordCountTool: Tool For Counting Words in Text
• TinyTags: Create Tag Graphic With Your Own Text
• TheNameEngine: Hear Proper Name Pronunciations of Public Figures

Modify image width, text colour, text font size and the background colour. When you are done, save it to your computer or share it on ImageShack or Flickr with one click.

Features:

• Scrolling text generator that lets you create GIF image file with your own scrolling typewriter text.
• Modify image width, text font size, text and background colours
• Save it to your computer or share it on ImageShack or Flickr with one click.

Check out Screedbot @ www.wigflip.com/screedbot

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Screedbot: Animated Scrolling Typewriter Text Generator

• Text Anim: Easily Create Animated Texts
• SplitGif: Split GIF Animations Online
• MakeAGIF: A Simple Animated Image Maker
• LooGix: Free Online GIF Animator
• GifSoup: YouTube Video To GIF Converter