Benubird PDF - flexible document organizer

Publisher's description: Dealing with documents is challenging. It’s easy to misplace, duplicate and accidentally delete them. Benubird PDF helps you overcome this challenge by providing a powerful range of tools for managing and archiving documents. Store your documents in one central location and use a comprehensive set of filters and search technology to make sure your documents are never more than a few clicks away.

Optimized for use with PDFs, images, and Microsoft Office and OpenOffice documents, Benubird PDF takes personal document management to the highest level of efficiency.

Detailed information:

Name: Benubird PDF

Version: 1.4

Publisher: Debenu Pty Ltd.

Program website: http://www.debenu.com/benubird/overview.html

Platform: Windows

Language: English

Additional requirements: no

File size: 11,8 MB

Installer: yes

Portable version: no

Registration: no

License: freeware

Limitations: no

Our Rating: 8/10

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Technorati Tagi: document manager,organizing

MetaTexis – professional CAT for free

Publisher's description: MetaTexis for Word is a CAT tool. CAT means "Computer Aided Translation", and this is exactly what MetaTexis is supposed to do: It helps translators to translate. (For more information about CAT tools see this page: Why a CAT tool?.

MetaTexis is a powerful and professional tool with many functions and options you will not find in other CAT tools. And MetaTexis runs in Microsoft Word. This means, all MetaTexis functions are available from within Word. So you do not have to learn a completely new program, but only new functions in a powerful and familiar environment.

The best way to find out what MetaTexis does to help you with your translations is to install the trial version and play around with the program. You will quickly find out how to use MetaTexis, for it is easy to use and integrates smoothly in Word. Just click here and install MetaTexis right away!

Detailed information:

Name: MetaTexis

Version: 2.972

Publisher: MetaTexis Software and Services Hermann Bruns

Program website: http://www.metatexis.com/

Platform: Windows

Language: Multilanguage

Additional requirements: Microsoft Word

File size: 9 MB

Installer: yes

Portable version: no

Registration: no

License: freeware (lite version)

Limitations:

All basic functions to translate Word documents are available, including:

• Translation memory
• Terminology database/glossary

The advanced functions of version "Pro" and NET/Office are not included

Trial version

All functions are available for 60 days or 600 usages maximum

After the test period the more advanced functions are de-activated, while other functions are restricted

Our Rating: 7/10

Pros: flexible, a lot of options, useful

Cons: lite version, many limitations, only for Word

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Technorati Tagi: CAT tool,translation,writing

Transciber - useful transcription tool

Publisher's description: Transcriber is a tool for assisting the manual annotation of speech signals. It provides a user-friendly graphical user interface for segmenting long duration speech recordings, transcribing them, and labeling speech turns, topic changes and acoustic conditions. It is more specifically designed for the annotation of broadcast news recordings, for creating corpora used in the development of automatic broadcast news transcription systems, but its features might be found useful in other areas of speech research.

Transcriber is developed with the scripting language Tcl/Tk and C extensions. It relies on the Snack sound extension, which allows support for most common audio formats, and on the tcLex lexer generator. It has been tested on various Unix systems (Linux, Sun Solaris, Silicon Graphics) and Windows NT. Transcriber is distributed as free software under .

Detailed information:

Name: Transcriber

Version: 1.5.1

Publisher: DGA

Program website: http://trans.sourceforge.net/en/presentation.php

Platform: Linux, Windows

Language: English, French, Czech

Additional requirements: no

File size: 2,82 MB

Installer: yes

Registration: no

License: open source (GNU General Public License)

Limitations: no

Our Rating: 8/10

Our Review:

Pros: a lot of options

Cons: obsolete interface

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Technorati Tagi: transcription,writing,rewriting