Infovole Releases Word-2-Text Converter For iPad
Infovole’s newest software release is App Word-2-Text, an essential tool for the iPad if you need to work with Microsoft Word formatted documents. Only a few iPad Apps can open Microsoft Word-documents, and most of them just display the content without the facility to edit it. Additionally, most Apps on the iOS-platform omit contents when they display DOCX- or DOC-files.
With Word-2-Text, the content of a Word-document can be extracted as plain text and transferred to any iPad App. This way users can import DOCX- and DOC-files to all common text editors, notebooks and other Apps and have them on hand for full-text-search and editing.
Mail, Safari, Dropbox, Evernote and all other WebKit-based Apps omit certain contents when they display a Word-document. For example, the user can not see if someone left comments, footnotes or endnotes in the document. This limitation can lead to unfortunate misunderstandings. Infovole’s Kathrin Sauerwein cites certified tax consultant Norbert Schaffrinna, commenting: “Especially when you have many meetings and you’re always on the go just like me, you have to be sure to really see ALL information from a Word-document on your iPad. This is why Word-2-Text is an indispensable tool on my iPad.”
However, Word-2-Text is not only useful for displaying and reading contents: For example, Word documents can be saved in note-taking Apps like Evernote, but they are not trackable in their full-text-search. With Word-2-Text, the searchable text can be filed together with the original document.
In other cases comments and table-in-table structures have to be preserved when importing a document to Pages; or contents of Word-documents need to be applied to text processors like Textkraft or Writer. All this is no longer a problem if you have Word-2-Text.
The plain text format is also very important for long-term filing: If users want to access, read or edit contents, they don’t necessarily need a Word-program. Moreover, the plain text format can be read by humans and all electronic platforms in its compact and direct form without conversion and special software.
The most important features of Word-2-Text in brief:
– Processing Microsoft Word-documents (DOCX & DOC) from Windows and Macintosh.
– Opening Word-documents directly from e-mail attachments.
– Receiving Word-documents from all Apps that can share those.
– Loading Word-documents from Dropbox or iTunes file sharing.
– Exporting text via clipboard, email text, email attachment, iCloud, Dropbox or local on the iPad.
– Passing on plain text directly to other iPad Apps.
– Variable font size with “pinching”.
– Direct printing from the iPad with AirPrint!.
System requirements:
– Compatible with iOS 3.2, 4.x, 5.x or newer.
Technical details:
• Word-2-Text supports MS-DOCX “Word Extensions to the Office Open XML (.docx) File Format”; which is the standard document format for Word 2008 and Word 2011 Macintosh and for Word 2007 and Word 2010 for Windows (and newer versions).
• Supports MS-DOC Word (.doc) Binary File Format; Word-97-2004-Document, which is compatible with Word 98 to Word 2004 Macintosh and Word 97 to Word 2003 for Windows.
• Creates UTF-8 compliant text as TXT files.
• Text formattings, images and other Word-options that can not be displayed with plain text, are naturally getting lost with the conversion. Whenever possible, tags will be used to reproduce the document structure. This way headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes and comments don’t get lost.
Infovole GmbH is developer of a suite of iPad text processing apps including Textkraft, Schreibkraft and 1a Easy Writer. Textkraft – the language specialist – contains an extensive offline-dictionary that shows synonyms and potential follow-ups. Schreibkraft is the first multilingual text processor: It speaks 10 languages in 14 country specific flavors without having to switch the language on the iPad.
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