Social Source Commons

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.

catdoc is program which reads one or more Microsoft word files and outputs text, contained insinde them to standard output

Our global system, combined with the reach of our partner networks, can power SMS and messaging solutions of every kind.

Ditto is an extension to the standard windows clipboard. Copy and paste galore!

Text-editor for Windows

Upload scanned images of text to identify the font used in the text.

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.

gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.

Mass phone-call and texting service.

Hosted text-to-speech conversion platform, with free and paid versions. Converts uploaded Word and PDF files to audio, integrates with Wordpress and standard web pages to create audio casts on the fly.

Voice-to-text dictation software.

mCommons allows you to integrate mobile messaging into your campaign strategy, your CRM, and your website.

Allows one to store notes in a free form using text and images with full word processing capabilities.

An Open Source, self hosted web office.

Pingie will automatically alert you via text, email and/or IM when your favorite site posts an update within moments of its posting.

Universal freeware editor

After installing and enabling Smart Trim module for Drupal, you should see a "Smart trimmed" option in the format dropdown for your text fields. With smart trim, you have control over: 1) The trim length, 2) Whether the trim length is measured in characters or words, 3) Appending an optional suffix at the trim point, and 4) Displaying an optional "More" link immediately after the trimmed text.

Reads incoming short messages from a cellular phone and, for each message, executes the actions that you specified.

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

Very simple but elegant HTML code editor for OSX. It is similar to a normal text editor but does font coloring for html and offers different ways of previewing your work as you go. This means it is great for writing html pages, but even better for writing blog posts etc. For those who can write blog html but enjoy a live preview, this is a useful tool

Probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines available. The source code will read a binary, grey or color image and output text. A tiff reader is built in that will read uncompressed TIFF images.

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.

TextSecure encrypts your text messages over the air and on your phone. It's almost identical to the normal text messaging application, and is just as easy to use.

A simple, free program that analyzes text files and returns statistics such as word frequency and concordance information.

Works with Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Documents as well as simple text files and many others.

Tool for posting to Twitter via email.

Mobile post voice, video, picture, and text mashups right to your page.

A hosted service to make it easy to work in groups. Have group emails, text messages, folders, calendars, links and meetings. Designed to bring all of group communication pathways into a central, simple place, Wiggio provides a place for social collaboration.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes