(Editor: Notepad) (Editor: Word Processor) (Compare Text In Files) (Convert HTML To Text) (Convert Text To PDF) (Convert Text To Speech) (Convert: OCR) (Email Stripper)

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Editor: Notepad

MetaPad
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/XP
Languages: English, plugins available for many other languages
Description: Metapad is a small, fast, 32-bit Notepad replacement. It includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more - without sacrificing any of Notepad's speed! Plenty of features for casual use and simple programming tasks alike. These include unlimited file size, drag and drop editing, auto-indent, support for Mac/Unix text files, enhanced find and replace, external viewers and more than 50 keyboard shortcuts. Metapad also features hyperlink support, favorites menu, stay on top window mode, custom font and background colors, a rich set of formatting commands and more. Additionally, you can set 10 quick buffers to paste frequently-used snippets of text. Recent additions include transparent mode and native Windows XP theme support. For spellchecking, one of Metapad's viewers can be configured for use with the freeware Aspell (http:/aspell.sourceforge.net/).
Company: -- Author: Alexander Davidson
Home Page:
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
download v 3.5 (2002-05-17) (mpad35.zip) (46 KB)
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/mpad35.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

NoteTab Light
(Liteware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: The ultimate free Notepad replacement and a handy HTML editor. Handle a heap of files with a simple tabbed interface. Search files, strip HTML tags and format text quickly. Build libraries of text macros to speed up your work
Company: Fookes Software Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.notetab.com/
download page v 4.95 (NoteTab_Setup.exe) (1795 KB), (ntfree.zip) (1796 KB)
http://www.notetab.com/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

EditPad Lite
(Liteware) (free for non-commercial use)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux
Languages: English, Dutch, Italian, German, Portuguese
Description: EditPad Lite is a light text editor and Notepad replacement. It has all the features a solid text editor needs without any bloat. You can open as many files at a time as you want, with no arbitrary file size limit. Each file will have its own tab. You can convert between ANSI, ASCII, and Unicode, and work with Unix and Mac files. You can search and replace across all open files. It has unlimited undo and redo and powerful print preview. Additional features include hyperlink support, auto-indent, line numbering, word wrap, column block selection (supported by ALT key), external browser support, customizable font and color, ROT- 13 encoding and more. You can have EditPad store its settings in an .ini file instead of the registry. This allows portability (you can carry around EditPad on a disk) and it keeps the registry clean. EditPad fully supports double byte character systems (DBCS) so you can edit texts written in Far East languages, such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean, as easily as those written in European languages.
Company: -- Author: Jan Goyvaerts
Home Page: download v 5.4.0 (2004-08-09) (SetupEditPadLite.exe) (1049 KB)
http://www.editpadlite.com/editpadlite.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-12-03)

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Editor: Word Processor

AbiWord
(Donationware) (open source: GPL license)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux
Languages: English, many other languages
Description: AbiWord is a lean yet full-featured word processor. It features a familiar-looking interface, basic character formatting, paragraph alignment, a spell checker, interactive rulers and tabs, styles, unlimited undo/redo, find and replace, and image support. It can also import Microsoft Word 97 and RTF (Rich Text Format) documents, as well as support headers/footers, superscript/subscript, widow/orphan control and newspaper-style columns. Many plug-ins are available. Support for tables is currently limited.
Company: SourceGear Corporation. Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.abisource.com/
download page (Windows) v 2.2.2 (2004-12-13) (abiword-setup-2.2.2.exe) (4908 KB)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15518
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-04)

Crypt Edit
(Freeware) (discontinued) (unsupported)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Languages: English, with interfaces for Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Russian, and Spanish; dictionaries for German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish
Description: Crypt Edit is a very powerful multidocument word processor with enhanced cryptography features. It can easily save texts as HTML, DOC, RTF, ASCII (DOS, WIN, UNIX, MAC), WRI, UNICODE and PRT (Protected Text Format with 3 security levels), encrypt/decrypt binary files with compression, create desktop shortcuts for your documents, insert OLE-objects and pictures (gif, jpeg, bmp, emf, wmf). The program includes an advanced e-mail client with an address book, a spelling checker, a built-in clipboard viewer, various converters (Lowercase, Uppercase, ROT-13, OEM etc.), a character map, an autoformat tool and much more. Microsoft IntelliMouse is also supported. Other notable features are several numbering and underline styles, minimization to the system tray, a drag-and-drop interface, lines sorting operations and html-highlighting. NOTES: Some additional files that are no longer available on the Polyedit site are available at the alternate download site.
Company: PolySoft Solutions Author: --
Home Page:
http://polyedit.com/
download page v 4.1 (2001-04-14) (cedit.zip) (1.1 MB), 4.1 Update (2001-06-23) (update41.zip) (535 Kb)
http://polyedit.com/downloads.shtml
alternate download page v 4.1 (2001-04-14) (cedit.zip) (1.1 MB), 4.1 Update (2001-06-23) (update41.zip) (535 Kb)
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/ce/ceditdl.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-12-05)

Atlantis Nova
(Liteware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, French
Description: Atlantis Nova is a small, fast word processor. With it's WYSIWYG format, documents are displayed on the screen the way they will appear when printed. Atlantis lets you work with up to 50 documents simultaneously. It also supports many document formats (RTF, MS Word 6.0/95/97/2000, MS Write etc) as well as many graphics formats. With it's advanced toolbars, you are only one-mouse-click-away from most operations. More than 200 hotkeys are supported. Different zooming factors and Easy Hand mode make viewing documents extremely convenient. Other features include column support (including sum a column of numbers), drag and drop editing, clippy bank, unlimited document size, unlimited undo/redo, multiple ways to select text using keyboard and mouse, find and replace, advanced wheel mouse support, support for paragraph styles, a calculator integrated into the document window and much more.
Company: Rising Sun Solutions Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.rssol.com/en/
download (English) v 1.0.0.66 (released 2001) (atlant10n_en.exe) (760 KB)
http://www.rssol.com/en/html/download/nova.htm
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

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Compare Text In Files

ExamDiff
(Liteware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: ExamDiff is a tool for visual file comparison of two text or html files. After selecting the two files to compare, ExamDiff will display them in a split screen and highlight all the differences The program offers a variety of handy features, like copying of text from the comparison panes via drag and drop and one push re-compare function which attempts to leave the viewer's focus in the same place as before the re-compare. ExamDiff can also remember a user specified number of last compared first and second files and saves the file differences in a standard UNIX DIFF file. The interface is clean,compact and there are several options to customize the comparison process, for example by ignoring white spaces and more.
Company: PrestoSoft Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp
Program description, download v 1.6k (2004-06-10) (ed16k_setup.zip) (466 KB); (ed16k.zip) (203 KB)
http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
(desc. rev.: 2004-08-06)

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Convert HTML To Text

Web2Text
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 3x/95/98/NT
Languages: English (Instructions in Swedish are available)
Description: Web2Text is a HTML to ASCII text converter. The layout of the original HTML page is kept (as much as is possible) and URLs are kept visible in the text files that are output. Can convert single files or batches. A minimum of post-conversion editing required.
Company: Stupendous Software Author: Damien Burke
Home Page:
http://www.jetman.dircon.co.uk/software/web2text.html
download (Win 95/98/NT) v 1.6 (web2text.zip) (190,802 bytes)
http://www.jetman.dircon.co.uk/software/web2text.zip
download (Win 3.1) v 1.2 (w2t16v12.zip) (132,917 bytes):
http://www.jetman.dircon.co.uk/software/w2t16v12.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

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Convert Text To PDF

GhostScript and GSView (GhostView)
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) (unsupported) (GSView is Nagware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Macintosh; Unix
Languages: English
Description: AFPL Ghostscript is a PostScript/PDF interpreter that can be used to convert various types of documents to PDF. Using Ghostscript, you can produce a PDF document as follows: Create a document using any favorite application program (Word, Excel, etc.). Use printing software to create a Postscript version. Then use Ghostscript to create a PDF file from the Postscript one. To avoid the command line interface of Ghostscript, Windows users should also install GSView, the graphical interface. GSView can be downloaded from the same site and should be installed after Ghostscript is installed. NOTES: Requires having a Postscript printer driver installed
Company: artofcode LLC and Artifex Software (originally written by Aladdin Enterprises) (Ghostscript) Author: Russell Lang at Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd http://www.ghostgum.com.au/ (GSView)
Home Page:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/
download page v 8.50 (2004-12-10) (Windows) (gs850w32.exe) (10057 KB)
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get850.htm
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-04)

CutePDF Writer (was CutePDF Printer)
(Liteware)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP Requires IE 5+
Languages: English
Description: CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button! Requires PS2PDF converter such as Ghostscript. COMMENTS:: When you choose to "print" to CutePDF Printer, a "Save As" dialog is shown.
Company: Acro Software Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.acrosoftware.com/
download page v 2.3 (2004- - ) (CuteWriter.exe) (1076 KB); Ghostscript v 7.06 (converter.exe) (3165 KB)
http://www.acrosoftware.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-10)

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Convert Text To Speech

Speakonia
(Freeware) (Registerware: name; email)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP Requires Microsoft language file
Languages: English (American), English (British), French, German, Italian, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian
Description: CFS-Technologies Speakonia is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) GUI (graphical User-Interface) Program which uses the Microsoft ® Speech Technology. The easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) is similar to Notepad. Speakonia reads aloud any given text with just one mouse click! The reading can be paused, resumed and can be exported to a wave file. In addition Speakonia is able to fetch webpages through an internal http interface and read them aloud for you. You can even have your mails read to you using the "Clipboard Reading" feaure. To enable Support for a particular language in Speakonia, download the appropiate language module from the Microsoft ® Page to your harddisk and double click it. NOTES: Links to Microsoft downloads are shown on the Speakonia web page.
Company: CFS-Technologies Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.cfs-technologies.com/home/?id=1.4
download v 1.0.3.5 (speakoniasetup-1.0.exe) (2.54 MB)
http://files.cfs-technologies.com/speakonia/speakoniasetup-1.0.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

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Convert: OCR

SimpleOCR
(Freeware) (free for non-commercial use)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English (English and French language recognition)
Description: Do you dread having to retype that document you are holding in your hand? If only you had the electronic file, your life would be so much easier. With SimpleOCR, you could easily and accurately convert that paper document into editable electronic text for use in any application including Word and WordPerfect. With optical character recognition up to 99% accurate, there is no better OCR application for the price. This increased accuracy greatly reduces the need for post-recognition proof reading and correction. SimpleOCR works with all versions of Windows. Your scanner need only a TWAIN driver, the driver that comes with a majority of all scanners sold. In short, SimpleOCR will most likely work with the PC and scanner you already have. NOTES: Based on WOCAR by Cyril Cambien
Company: SimpleOCR Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.simpleocr.com/
download v 3.1 (SimpleOCR.exe) (7.5 MB)
http://www.simpleocr.com/Download/SimpleOCR.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

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Email Stripper

eCleaner
(Freeware) (discontinued)
Windows OS:
Languages: English
Description: Cleaner is a simple text editor which allows you to make your e-mail messages more readable by removing the symbols that accumulate when an e-mail is forwarded several times. eCleaner lets you remove any HTML code and obscure headers, removing the > > symbols, and fix fragmented sentences that are caused by word wrapping. In addition, you can open and edit RTF files, customize fonts and colors, and print your files.
Company: -- Author: Steve Chin
Home Page: download v 2.02 (clean202.zip) (446 KB)
http://ecleaner.tripod.com/
(desc. rev.: 2004-08-12)