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Recently, i have discovered a great way of converting a document into different formats for free. This is very useful when you have limited amount of format availble for a project or submission. For example, some websites only have some image formats supported so if you want to make a document available in different format, this would be very useful indeed.

About the program

OmniFormat is a free document conversion utility which allows dynamic conversion and image manipulation of over 75 file formats including HTML, DOC, XLS, WPD, PDF, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, PCX, PPT, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX and MPEG. So if you want to see more support file format visit their FAQ page.

What more does it do?

It can convert your image format to text. It supports Optical Character Recognition (OCR). In order to convert image formats to text, the free OmniFormat Optical Character Recognition module must be downloaded from OmniFormat and installed. The OCR Module will process all import formats handled by OmniFormat. It can also extract text from PDF files and be run from the command line.

Omniformat requires that Pdf995 - also FREE - be installed. Pdf995 is the fast, affordable way to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format. Its easy-to-use interface allows you to create PDF files by simply selecting the “print” command from any application, creating documents which can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer.

Simple to use, OmniFormat “watches” a folder for image files. When images are placed into the Watch folder, they are automatically processed. [Note: original files placed in the Watch folder will be deleted.] Processing may include a combination of conversion and image manipulation. OmniFormat may be optionally run as a Windows System Service.

Processing options include: Size, Rotation, Brightness, Saturation, Hue, Contrast.

OmniFormat may also be used to dynamically convert XML data to any supported output format including PDF. A Microsoft Word file is used as a template to supply layout information. OmniFormat replaces fields in the Word template with values specified in the XML file, and then converts the document to the final format.

It currently support Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit); NT 4.0 and XP (32 bit and 64 bit); Windows 2003 (32 bit and 64 bit); and Windows 95, 98, 2000 and ME.

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