Want to grab the text from a PDF and throw it into a Google Doc? Well, now you can. When you upload PDF files to Google Docs, you’ll now have the ability to convert text from PDFs or even images and store the text in a Google Docs document. It’s not a perfect process,
Cloud Computing
When You Really Need to Send Me a Terabyte of Information
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Cloud Computing, Useful Web Sites
Getting big files to people through e-mail is a problem; most ISPs have size limits on e-mail, and so files bigger than 3-5MB frequently don’t get through. A number of services have popped up to address this issue — companies like YouSendIt and FileCourier provide for safe and secure file transfer. Now Streamload is getting…
Relief for large file transfers
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Cloud Computing, Collaboration
Occasionally, I’ll have a file that’s just too big to send out by e-mail — usually because the recipient’s e-mail account won’t allow file transfers over a certain size. That’s where You Send It might come in handy; you can upload files up to 1 Gigabyte in size, and the recipient receives an e-mail directing…