Have you ever been in a situation where you don't know what application can handle a file? Maybe because it's without any extensions, or it just doesn't make sense? This tool can help! TrIDNet is a utility designed to identify file types from their binary signatures. While there are similar utilities with hard coded rules, TriID has no such rules. Instead, it is extensible and can be trained to recognize new formats fast and easy.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-09-03
• Size: 33 Kb
• Cost: Free

This program uses its artificial intelligence to guess chords for you. All you have to do is to load a media file (wav or mp3) and click a button. Chord Pickout will transcribe the music and write down the recognized chords. The process is fully automated. While most of its competitors use simple patterns to recognize chords, Chord Pickout applies complex math and shows outstanding results even in the toughest cases.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-05-27
• Size: 749 Kb
• Cost: 29.95 $

This program expands the powers of your PC's built-in copy command. Screen OCR can copy text from many locations that are inaccessible to the Windows Clipboard, including dialogboxes and protected Web pages. All settings are available via the system-tray icon, which lets you select a color for highlighted text and choose how you want the text-selection tool to behave. For example, you can copy text from a PDF document or a Flash animation.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-01-18
• Size: 422 Kb
• Cost: 29.95 $

Recognizes and saves any text that otherwise cannot be saved or printed. It can copy everything that resembles text in any form. You can select the text using one of the following methods: draw rectangular line and thus select the text that's in it; select the whole visible display area (window select); select the text/graphics while scrolling the window; using the "smart" method - i.e. draw your mouse cursor along the line.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-12-17
• Size: 422 Kb
• Cost: 29.95 $

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) based solution, which makes it work precisely and incredibly fast and allows capture text even if some custom fonts are used. Screen OCR SDK can be used in different types of software like automation software, dictionaries and translation tools, organizer applications, etc. While most computer programs can make copies of text and paste it, but not all screens or programs have these edit features.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-01-18
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 149.00 $

qs Barcode Code39 can read horizontal Code39 barcodes with 6 digits on monochrome images (windows bitmaps). qsBarcode Code39 is an easy-to-use DLL that can be from many different developer environments, such as C/C++, Java, VisualBasic or Delphi.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, German
• Release: 2004-07-29
• Size: 360 Kb
• Cost: Free

Converts text containing date, time and appointment data into calendar entries. Supported calendar applications include Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes and Palm Desktop. copy2calendar is as easy to use as the Windows clipboard. Step 1. Select the text containing the appointment information (including date and time) -- Step 2. Press Ctrl-C twice -- Step3. copy2calendar launches your calendar and creates the new entry. Requires Win NT, 2000 or XP.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, German
• Release: 2006-06-02
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 24.95 $

Don't waste your time and retype paper text into your computer. With OCR-TextScan 2 Word you can easily scan paper documents. The program now tries to find the text information out of the scanned picture and to save it as word file or text file. You still have to correct the texts but you save a lot of time compared with complete retyping of the text. Text in the most used fonts can be recognized.

• License: Demo
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-11-15
• Size: 602 Kb
• Cost: 35.00 $

With ContactCopy, you select contact information such as name, address, phone number and email address in any application. With just a keystroke you copy all data to your contact database in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express or Palm Desktop. With ContactCopy, you avoid typing errors when transferring important contact data such as email addresses, phone and fax numbers or postal addresses.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, German
• Release: 2007-01-19
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 39.00 $

bcTester 4.6 is freeware for barcode reading (linear and 2 dimensional) on digital images captured by scanning or cameras. Many file formats are supported, e.g. BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPG and Adobe PDF-Files. All common barcode symbologies are recognized, e. g. 2 of 5 familiy, code 39, code 93, codabar, code128, ean/ucc and 2D bar codes Aztec, Data Matrix, QR Code and PDF 417. Test if your bar codes are readable and check the content!

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-04-22
• Size: 8 Mb
• Cost: Free

Start recognizing voice commands in any spoken language with Research-Lab's Isolated Words Language-Independent Speech Recognition Engine. From writing a simple voice commands recognition program to a VoiceXML PC-To-PC Interactive Voice Response, English Language is no more a programmers only limit . Need also arises in conditions when one requires to add a user interface with hands-free control

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Arabic, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Other, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish
• Release: 2005-09-25
• Size: 6 Mb
• Cost: Free

Polyglot 3000 is automatic language identifier that can detect the language used in a text, phrase, or even a single word. The program features over 400 languages. Input text files utilise both Unicode and ANSI encodings. Polyglot 3000 features: Recognize more than 400 languages. Supports Unicode texts. Nice user interface. Quick and correct language identification. Recognize language just among popular languages. Multilingual interface.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, ChineseSimplified, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish, Ukrainian
• Release: 2006-04-21
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: Free