SimpleOCR is a popular program that is used to change images that have been scanned, into both text files and Word documents. The process may sound extremely complicated, but with the help of SimpleOCR, it is actually extremely simple! One of the major benefits of using SimpleOCR is the fact that it is 100% free of charge.

FreeOCR is something that has only become popular over the last few months. This piece of software is something that is a free scan program, but also a free OCR program, hence the name! The great thing about this product is that it gives an extremely accurate scan of OCR PDF files.

Nitro PDF Reader is a piece of software that works in a much more complicated manner than the majority of other PDF readers. That being said, that does not mean that the user experience is any more complicated. In fact; the user experience is simplified if anything!

The Bullzip PDF Printer may seem like a fairly straightforward piece of software, but the technicalities behind its development are actually quite complicated. The Bullzip PDF Printer basically works by being a Microsoft Windows printer. This will allow users to write as many PDF documents as they wish, using almost any type of application from Microsoft Windows, which means there is plenty of flexibility.

The PDF-XChange Viewer software is a simple piece of software that makes life that little bit easier. Computer users wishing to simply view or even modify PDF files can now use something different to the Adobe Reader program to get the job done. This clever piece of software is not just faster and incorporates more features, but it is also a lot smaller than Adobe Reader.

LibreOffice first came to market back in 2010. Computer users suddenly realised that the future of OpenOffice was not certain and users were uncertain of the intentions from Oracle’s perspective.

Freelang is extremely useful, simple, lightweight, easy to use and excellent little tool that can help you immensely if you are trying to learn a foreign language. It can be used as a dictionary and also allows you to create your own practice lists; at the time of this writing Freelang offers no less than 247 language wordlists.

AbiWord is part of a larger development project known as AbiSource, which aims to create an open source office suite that works across multiple different environments. Although AbiWord is the only practical piece of software to come from the project so far, it’s shaping up to be a very flexible and practical program which has versions that can run on just about Operating System available. We take a look at the program and see how its features stack up compared to those of Word and Writer.