It never ceases to amaze me how sophisticated and incredibly original some software developers are. Here is a fresh batch of handy software with cool, sometimes weird, applications.
WaveToText (United Research Labs)
WaveToText is an English speech recognition-based dictation pad with a WAV to text converter. The dictation pad lets you convert your voice to text in real-time, while the program's wizard enables you to convert your Windows Audio WAV files (speech recorded) offline. This speech utility is probably the fastest way to convert speech to text, you don't need to be conscious of what the computer is going to write, you also don't miss a word as its stored in a wav file. You may then high speed edit the converted text using a special editor which plays back every word which you can mark for editing purposes. In addition, the text can be searched and easily cut, copied, and pasted into any application.
PDFToHTML (VeryPDF)
The PDFToHTML is a specialized tool for quickly and easily converting Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents into HTML files. PDFToHTML provides all the power to convert sophisticated PDF documents, by remaining all the text layout, along with the coordinate, color, style of every object. Here are some things I love about this particular software: First, it boasts high speed in processing and supports command line, so you can call it from yourself program. Importantly, you don't need to have Adobe Acrobat software installed and the program will work on any Win98/ME/NT/2000/XP machine.
NET Observe (Explore Anywhere Software)
NET Observe 2.9 is a powerful, discrete remote web based surveillance and administration suite. It includes the ability to monitor Internet chat conversations, websites visited, windows, applications ran, clipboard activity, printed documents, and more. It can also take screen shot shots at set intervals, as well as take pictures from external video devices such as a web cam. All logs are viewable securely from a remote location through a web browser. All logs can also be exported into four different formats, such as HTML, Excel spreadsheets, plain text, or CSV.
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WaveToText http://www.deprice.com/wavetotext.htm
PDFToHTML http://www.deprice.com/pdf2html.htm
NET Observe http://www.deprice.com/netobserve.htm
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