You don’t need expensive software for basic PDF tasks. In fact, all you need is a handful of free web-based apps.

NOTE: This works on .pptx files ONLY - if you're using Google Drive or Keynote etc., export your presentation to .pptx first. What does it do: Takes a PowerPoint file and a PDF of the same file ...

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was in plaintext, and the Word was in plaintext because plaintext was the Way. It was good. On the sixth day—I’m skipping ahead here—the internet was born.

There are many ways to convert documents on Ubuntu, but few are as quick or as easy to use as Morphosis. Morphosis is a new desktop app written in Python and GTK4/libadwaita, powered by Pandoc, a ...

Compare the best free Microsoft Excel alternatives for 2026, including features, pricing, pros and cons, and use cases for ...

Unfortunately, Microsoft Word is required to be installed, so LibreOffice or other alternatives will not work (for now). This also means it only works on Windows ...

A video demo of the data extraction process for this experiment. I convert a ton of text documents like PDFs to spreadsheets. It’s tedious and expensive work. So every time a new iteration of AI ...

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package names in the table are clickable if ...