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Visualization

Crowdmap

Crowdmap allows the investigator to set up a Web map around a particular topic and invite multiple users (participants, research subjects, collaborators, multiple assistants) to contribute information to the map on their own time and from their own device. For $10/month, users can buy fee-based services including private maps and custom branding. Users have complained that Crowdmap is glitchy and unreliable. It is hard to find recent examples of successful projects built with the app. There is no other free and open source tool that fills the precise niche. For a freemium closed source service that allows crowdsourced point data only, try ZeeMaps. For a fee-based, open source crowd mapping tool, try the shared tables function of CartoDB.

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Collaboration

Ushahidi Platform

Ushahidi is a software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping, to build tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories. It has been used for election monitoring, crisis and emergency response, civil society, city/community building, arts and even where to find the best burger. Specific tools: Crowdmap: A simple map-making tool, built on an open API, that allows for collaborative mapping Swiftriver: Curate real-time data and analysis from a variety of sources, including social media streams CrisisNET: A consolidated source of global crisis data Ping: Two-way multichannel group alert during an emergency SMSSync: Create a two way gateway with an Android phone and local SIM anywhere in the world BRCK: Supports connectivity in remote locations, self-powered, mobile WiFi device

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Tofu

Tofu reformats text into columns for easier reading. Tofu is basically a column-oriented text reader. Basically, Tofu will work with text (pasted, grabbed via a service, or in an opened file) and reformat it to display in multiple columns, all fully justified. This can make reading long, text-heavy documents much easier. Each column is only as high as your window and this eliminates the need to scroll vertically and the reader is less likely to loose track. Currently only available for mac os

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Sort My List

Sort My List will alphabetically sort a list of plain text data, and do some simple text reformatting (e.g. going from CSV to TSV, changing cases, find and replace.). It is constantly being updated with new sorting options.

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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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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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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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Capture

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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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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Gathering

GNU Wget

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.

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