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Tool to convert paper documents into searchable Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Accurate OCR, page and content recognition, and cleanup tools.

Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. It was built for Mac OS X.

Mass Text Replacement Tool

Freeware text editor.

Powerful text editor for Windows which allows for UNIX-type scripting commands.

Text expansion utility

FrontlineSMS provides an affordable, standalone turn-key solution to NGOs, allowing them to access 'group' SMS technology.

Gaupol is a software tool for the Windows operating system that translates subtitles on video from one language to another. Focused on being accessible to the user, Gaupol emphasizes simplicity and ease of use and can work in many subtitle file formats.

Text-message search engine. Simply text message your search query to 466453 ("GOOGLE" on most devices) and it will text message back your results.

Affordable complete solution for email blasting, text messaging, petitions, surveys, voting, and more. Integrates with various databases and is extremely user friendly.

Blog editing and publishing software that integrates with NetNewsWire as well as most text editors.

Free online social network that connects to cell phones. Supports text response, polls, trivia, mobile content delivery (ringtones, wallpapers, etc.), Text-to-win sweepstakes, mobile coupons, Optional Custom campaigns

Notepad++ is a source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages and runs under the MS Windows environment. Its features include syntax highlighting, WYSIWYG, auto-completion, multi document/view and more.

“Pdftotext” is a shell program for converting PDF (Portable Document Format / Adobe Acrobat) documents into plain text.

Smultron is a text editor written in Cocoa for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or later

TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud.

Project polls or message boards on a large screen, have everyone send their input via their cell phones and see results instantly!

Encrypts text files in an EXE format.

Records expanded text messages to replace predetermined abbreviations.

Hosted service to "text message enable" information and web pages.

Handy utility to make it easy to clean up Internet text littered with extraneous characters and poor formatting.

These are the tools that I have to use in order to be the best SSC Community Manager that there is. Whether it be updating the WordPress blog with Cyberduck or chatting on Adium about Google Analytics, these tools help my world go 'round.

The Ushahidi Engine is a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline.

An improved version of the vi editor

Microsoft Office's word-processing software.

Full-screen text editor.