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TAPoR catalogues concordancers, annotators, topic models, stylometry packages, and visualization environments. Every record notes the platform, the license, and what the tool is actually good for.

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PDF Extract

Pdf-extract is an open source set of tools and libraries for identifying and extracting semantically significant regions of a scholarly journal article (or conference proceeding) PDF.

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PDFCreator

PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It works by creating a virtual printer that prints to PDF files, and thereby allows practically any application to create PDF files by choosing to print from within the application and then printing to the PDFCreator printer.

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PDFMiner

PDFMiner is a Python tool for extracting information from PDFs (not only text, but also information about fonts, encoding, and layout.)

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PDFmyURL

PDFmyURL converts websites to PDFs. Its very easy and straight forward to use. The Pdf rendered are of good quality. Premium, paid features include watermarks and preference configuration (e.g. paper size, table of contents, disabling/enabling links, etc.)

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PDFsam (PDF Split and Merge)

PDFsam Basic or PDF Split and Merge is a free and open-source cross-platform desktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF documents. PDFsam Basic is a desktop application freely accessible from the project's page both as source and compiled code. It is available as MSI package for 32-bit and 64-bit MS Windows, .dmg for Mac OS X, .deb package for Debian based GNU/Linux distributions and ZIP bundle for the power users' convenience.

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Pdftk (PDF Toolkit)

The PDF Toolkit allows users to merge, split, rotate, decrypt/encrypt, compress/uncompress, and repair PDFs. PDFtk Free comes with a command-line tool, PDFtk Server. So you get both the GUI and the command-line interface to PDFtk!

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Geoffrey Rockwell

Cool Voyant Tools

Not all Voyant tools show up in the default view or skin. Here is a list of some of the other tools worth trying.

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Holly Pickering

Audio Production Software

Interested in audio production and editing? Here are a few programs that can help you get on your way. Some of them are free, some not, but all are helpful and useful.

3 tools

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Jason Bradshaw

TATR: Text Analysis for Twitter Research

This list compiles a suite of tools that make up Kynan Ly's Text Analysis for Twitter Research (TATR) Library. Recipes to these notebooks can be found on methodi.ca

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