Convert your scanned images to text files or Word documents with SimpleOCR--the only OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application that is completly free. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free developer toolkit (aka SDK or API).

Performs various operations on a text buffer: regular expression search and replace, reformat text width, remove email reply quotes, remove empty and duplicate lines, etc. Result is automatically copied to the clipboard. Supports various languages.

Text to speech, text to mp3, batch convert text files to MP3 files. Integrate with MS Word, WordPerfect, Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer. Read aloud any text. AT&T natural voices (US, UK, German, French, or Spanish) provide you excellent voice.

Replace Pioneer is a pioneer in text replace area, it experts in special tasks that regular replace tools cannot reach. Actually, Replace Pioneer is far beyond a replace tool: Given any input text, you can get any output text base on your own rule.

Plain text editor.

TopOCR is a free high performance OCR system designed for digital cameras and is capable of recognizing 11 languages. Supports multiple text output formats, including searchable PDF and HTML as well as a Text To Speech Interface.

A Multilingual IRC and Communication client with Script,Flash,and Skin capabilities.

Postscript to Text Converter is a utility for extracting text from PostScript and EPS files. It reads in postscript and EPS files and outputs a text file. This is useful when trying to search or read the text contained in postscript and EPS files.