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First establish if you can legally do this:If this is for personal use only scan and create a PDF. Although PDF is a pain to use as an ebook - too much scrolling involved - it really isn’t worth the effort to do a proper job of making an epub or mobi file.If this is a book you have written and own the copyright to then you are better starting with an original word processed file.If this is an old, out of copyright book check Projem to ct Gutenberg before trying to make your own ebook. You may find it has already been converted.If non of these apply and you intend to make the book available to others then you are asking for trouble!Assuming you wish to continue I suggest these steps:Scan the bookUse an OCR program to convert the files to text. There are a number of these programs available, some free. Your scanner may include some in its software. MS Onenote, part of the MS Office suite will do this.Your OCR program will output a text file. Import this into a word processor and use its spell checking to find and fix many of the errors the OCR program will have introduced.Manually read through the file looking for errors which are not spelling mistakes. For example the errors ‘Giinthur clear’ may be shown when the actual text is ‘Günthur dear’. The ‘Giinthur’ will probably be picked up as a spelling error but ‘clear’ will not.Go through the document adding in appropriate styles in the text. For example chapter headings as heading 1 style, any italics and text separators. You may include effects such as initial drop capitals, paragraph indents, text separators and set paragraphs after a heading or text separator to not be indented. Save the file as a .doc or docx file.Import the doc/docx file into the open source program ‘calibre’Get calibre to convert the file into an EPUB3 file.Add meta data to the file. You’ll need a book description, tags, a cover image, author name etc.I would NOT suggest using InDesign to produce an EPUB file. It’s an expensive option and doesn’t seem to produce as good results.

Thankfully these days, the number of Word files becoming corrupt, may be diminishing and the DOCX format is tailor made to allow for easier file repair. (Note many of the images of the text in displayed in the images below have been blurred standing in for the recovered data, because I don't want to compromise the trust of the people who have sent me files.) A big thanks to Rohn007 for some extensive editing advice.Here's what you can do to recover from Word document corruption with advice (in written and video form) and links to software, service and sites that will help you do it. BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE, MAKE COPIES OF YOUR CORRUPT FILE AND ONLY WORK ON THE COPIES. SOME OF THE METHODS DESCRIBED BELOW ARE DESTRUCTIVE TO THE CONTENT OF YOUR DOCUMENTS!!!Note, DOCX files are in reality conventionally zipped collections of mostly XML subfiles. You can see this by changing the extension of the file from .docx to .zip in the files properties (the quickest way is just to add .zip to the ,docx), by right clicking on the file and choosing to rename or by hitting the F2 key and doing the same thing. DOC files, an earlier format, are complicated collections of objects too, but are mostly not store as zipped elements. In fact in DOC documents often the text is stored in plan text mode which you can see from open a copy of your corrupt file in Notepad or by changing the extension of the file from DOC to TXT and opening it in Word. Notepad destroys the binary structure of DOC files so only look at it this way on a copy!File corruption can occur for a number of reasons including software crashes, CPU mistakes, computer overheating, power outages, viruses, partial hdd and ssd disk failures (I know that's redundant terminology), other kind of drive failures including unsafe removing of usb and other connected connected memory cards and finally these days unfortunately a lot of usb memory and memory cards are "fake" in that they tell the computer they are one size, say 128GB which is a size you supposedly bought it at, but in reality the memory stick or card only holds 8GB. When it reaches its limit it begins overwriting and corrupting the oldest files or simply throws away the data yielding in the latter case only a partial file. You can test for this with the software described here: All about 'Fake' SD cards and USB Flash drives - RMPrepUSB.Here's what you can do to recover or repair your corrupt files:Find Previous, Lost, Deleted, Temporary and Unsaved Versions of Your FilePrevious VersionsShadow Explorer (freeware)Z-VSScopy (freeware)Previous Version File Recoverer (open source freeware)Using the Previous Version Tab in Explorer Properties (this works for the more expensive versions of Windows Vista, all versions of Windows 7 and Windows 10. It may not work in Windows 8 and 8.1)Lost VersionsEverything (freeware)Deleted VersionsRecuva (freeware)PhotoRec (freeware)Restoration (freeware)Temporary (also Unsaved and Lost) VersionsS2 Recovery Tools for Microsoft Word (use the Find Lost/Temp Versions button of this open source freeware)Unsaved VersionsRecover Unsaved Word Files (advice that presumably applies to Word 2013, 2016 and 365 as well)Lost, Deleted and UnsavedAdvice from MicrosoftCisdem Data Recovery for Mac (commercial - Mac only)Hetman Word Recovery/Starus Word Recovery/Magic Word Recovery (commercial)Mac Data Recovery (commercial - Mac only)PC Inspector™ File Recovery (freeware for doc files only)Recover My Files (commercial)Word Regenerator (commercial - Rohn007 recommends the umbrella program Office Regenerator which probably works the same. "On my 100GB data partition it ran for about 1 hour and found 691 files, 450 MB, going back almost 7 months! I don’t remember if that was the last time I used a wipe freespace tool on my drive. They definitely were not in my recycle bin. Don’t do first auto run. The interface provides lots of Filter criteria such as: date created range, last saved range, last printed range, title, num pages, editing time, revision number, file type, author. All of the recovered files I looked at were properly structured." - note the other undeleters above may be similarly effective. Try the demos first!)Microsoft's/Conventional Advice (most of this section can be accomplished using the open source freeware, S2 Recovery Tools for Word)If You Can Still Open the File - your file may be corrupt if symptoms appear like: Word repeatedly renumbering the existing pages in the document, repeatedly redoing the page breaks in the document, providing incorrect document layout and formatting, unreadable characters on appearing on the screen, error messages occurring during processing, computers that stopping responding when you open the file or any other unexpected behavior that cannot be attributed to the typical operation of the program. Note that it could also be that Word itself needs repairing or reinstalling or the entire Microsoft Office may need repairing or reinstalling.Make a few copies of your corrupt document and only work on the copies! Some these procedure will possibly destroy or make your file worse :-(.Start Word in Safe Mode by holding down the CTL key as you click to start Word. View and save the file if it opens without error.Start Word without loading macros by holding down the Shift key while starting Word. This can also be done by pasting in winword.exe /m in the run app, CMD app or the Search/Cortana field of Windows. Afterwords, try loading your document and see if it loads without corruption. If it does then you need to try to disable any macros you have in your template that start when Word starts and then re-enable them one at a time until you find the one that is causing the issue.Change the template that you are using by renaming either the global template (Normal.dotm) if you using that, or find the one you are using and rename that one.Start Word without it loading add-ins or the normal template by: starting it from a command line, the run app, or the Cortana/Search field and using the command: winword.exe /a. If your file opens normally without corruption, then there is an Add-in causing the trouble. Go to File then Options and then Add-ins. In the panel windows that opens, look for which kind of Add-ins are active and then go to the bottom and choose to manage those types of Add-ins. Uncheck the running Add-ins one by one or all at once if you think you don't need them and try reopening your file.Change the print driver by adding another printer like another instance of the Microsoft XPS Document Writer, printing from that, verifying it worked, deleting the original printer, reinstalling it and then trying the first printer again.Force Word to repair the file by starting an open dialog window in Word, selecting your file in the Explorer tree, and choosing Open and Repair by clicking on the tiny arrow to the right of the word Open on the open button and choosing the command from the drop down menu.Change the file format using File menu, choosing Save As and select a different format: DOC, RTF, ODT, etc. Then open the new file name and use Save As to return to DOCX format.Formatting and corruption is stored in section breaks, end of row marks for tables and the last paragraph mark of a document because it contains a hidden section break. To bypass these sources of corruption, find where the document begins to corrupt and then switch to Draft view and try deleting the previous section mark or the following one. If you don't know where the corruption is, try removing all the section breaks and continuing with the advice below about copying the text without the last paragraph mark. If you have no section breaks in your document you can turn on the formatting marks and then copying everything but the last paragraph mark to a new document. Start on the last character before the last paragraph mark and hit Ctl-Shift and Home keys on your keyboard to select all the text before the last paragraph mark. Hit Ctl-C on your keyboard to copy all the text and then paste it into a new blank document (you can get that by hitting Ctl-N).If you text is not appearing after a certain point in your document, note the page number then switch to Web or Draft view. Just after where the truncation appears, delete the next paragraph table or object (maybe even an equation) in the new view. Switch now to Print Layout view and see if the truncation of the document below the presumably bad element, has gone away. If it has not, continue to switch to Draft or Web view and delete more further paragraphs or objects.Rohn007's and Microsoft's advice is to group offending elements togethor. Per Roh007's reply to a post of mine: "If you can open a file and you have a lot of objects of one kind that you suspect are causing corruption you can group them togethor to possible stop future corruption from occurring. Grouping objects by first turning on the Selection pane. This can be found in the Home tab of the ribbon. The editing group of the Home tab has a dropdown button named Select. Click the Select button, and then click Selection Pane...Press the Ctrl button on your keyboard and then click each text box (or other object?) in the selection pane. Click the Group button under the Format tab. This will group all the objects together. As soon as you have all objects grouped on each page, save the document under a new name."If You Can No Longer Open the FileMake a few copies of your corrupt document and only work on the copies! Some these procedure will possibly destroy or make your file worse :-(.Start Word in Safe Mode by holding down the Ctl key as you click to start Word. View and save the file if it opens.Start Word without it loading add-ins or the normal template by: starting it from a command line, the run app, or the Cortana/Search field and using the command: winword.exe /a. If your file opens, then there is an Add-in causing the trouble. Go to File then Options and then Add-ins. In the panel windows that opens, look for which kind of Add-ins are active and then go to the bottom and choose to manage those types of Add-ins. Uncheck the running Add-ins one by one or all at once if you think you don't need them and try reopening your file.Start Word without loading macros by holding down the Shift key while starting Word. This can also be done by pasting in winword.exe /m in the run app, CMD app or the Search/Cortana field of Windows. Afterwords, try loading your document.Check to see if you have any other copies of your file. Have you Emailed it recently? If so check your sent folder. Have you deleted a version? Check the Recycle Bin or use Recuva, Restoration, Recover My Files, Word Regenerator mentioned earlier or use another technique to find a previous, lost, temporary or unsaved version of your file with the software mentioned above or using the techniques mentioned in the Advice section at the end of the article.Open with Microsoft Word's in-built method Open and Repair by choosing the File menu, then Open, then Select file, then clicking the down arrow beside the open button and choosing Open and Repair. See above for an image.Try changing the extension to DOC if a DOCX file or vice versa. Also note in the next section, when you look at the raw characters of a copy of your corrupt file in NotePad, NotePad++, WordPad or Word (for the latter two change the extension to txt) that a lot of instances of the characters "PK" indicate a DOCX file and should start the raw characters of a normal zip file as the DOCX is. The characters "ÐÏ" normally start a DOC file and towards the end there are normally a few zipped up sub-files even in the DOC file format.Try opening the file in Draft view without updating the links by first switching the view to Draft on a blank document. Next open the Options and choose Advanced and make checks to use Draft font in Draft and Outline Views and Showing picture placeholders instead of the images in the file. Also continuing in the Advanced Options scroll down to the General section of the and uncheck the Update automatic links at open option. Now try to open the file. If it opens, repair it by looking for the truncations in Print Layout and removing objects from Draft or Web view just after the truncations as mentioned before.Insert the text into a new file by first choosing to an insert an Object, then on the window that opens choose the Create from File tab and browse to your corrupt file.Create a link to the damaged document by opening a blank document and typing something like "This is test." Save the new file with the name "Rescue link." Copy the text. Create a second new document. In the new file, choose Paste Special and then move the radio button on the left of the Paste Special window to Paste link and choose Formatted Text RTF. Now select the linked text, right click on it, choose first Linked Document Object and then Links. Find your new linked document in the list, and choose Change Source and change the source to your damaged document. See if any text or other recoverable elements appear. Finally right click on the recovered text and/or objects, choose Linked Document Object again choose Links again. This time choose Break Links. This may only work if your corrupt document is a DOC one and not DOCX format.Use the Recover Text from Any File function of Word by browsing to your corrupt file, and then selecting the little down arrow on the button above the Open and Cancel buttons on the lower right corner of the Open dialog box and choosing, Recover Text from Any File. This again may only work with DOC files.Open the file in Word Viewer 2007 or some other viewer. If the viewer doesn't have the ability to convert to another format, you can copy the whole document to you clipboard and paste it in Word or another word processor by hitting Ctl_A on your keyboard to select all the text, then hitting Ctl-C to copy it. Start a new blank document in WOrd or your word processor and hit Ctl-V on your keyboard to paste it in. You can also right click and copy the text in the Word Viewer and of course right click and paste in Word or another word processor.Although it may be exponentially more difficult you can also take screenshots of the results in the viewer and then do OCR (optical character recognition for each page - after turning the screenshots into JPG or PNG images of cours). There are some free OCR solutions, for example with one of these. You can then paste the results of the text for each page image into a new Word file. This may of course be very labor intensive.Another easier alternative in this situation is to first print from the viewer to a PDF Printer like PDF Creator, which saves the document as a PDF file. At this point you can open the file in Adobe Reader and then on the File menu of the program, choosing first Save As Other and then Text. Of course if you have Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional, the Export To menu choice will also let you convert directly back to a Word document. There are also a few pieces of freeware and free services which claim they can convert PDF's directly back to Word documents. The quality varies though and at least in the past you could end up with each line of your document being an independent text box with the line inside, which would be terrible for the flowing of text when editing. In the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat DC, the new incarnation Adobe Acrobat Professional, the Word conversion text flow problems, which I think also plagued Adobe Acrobat pay programs, appear to be gone or greatly lessened.Try to convert the text using a text/data extracting/converter service like: Zamzar, Cometdocs, YouConvertIt, DocMorph, FreeFileConvert and others.Try to open the file on a different computer and if possible a different version of Word.Try reinstalling or repairing Word in your Control Panel applet called Programs and Features. After repairing the install, try opening the file again.Try re-registering the ole32.dll file. Open an elevated command prompt. To do this, click Start , click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Allow. Type the following: regsvr32 %SystemRoot%\system32\ole32.dll and then click OK.. When you receive the message "DllRegisterServer in ole32.dll succeeded.", click OK, and try opening your file again.Force Word to re-register itself by typing winword /regserver. Quit Word, then restart it and try opening your file. NOTE: Use this switch when you want Microsoft Word to rewrite all of its registry keys and reassociate itself with Word files, such as documents and templates.Open Word, go to Options, click on Trust Center. Next click on the Trusted Center Settings and then Protect View. From there, uncheck the three kinds of Enable Protected View. Save and try to reopen your file. You may need to repair the install of Word or Office first before this works.Try to Open the File in Another Word Processor (which is hopefully less picky about format than Word).Stand Alone Word ProcessorsWordPad - can be started by typing "wordpad" without the quotes at a command line, the Run app, a search field or in the Cortana box. It also can be started by opening explorer and pasting in "WINDIR%\write.exe" without the quotes. That also can be done at those location mentioned. WordPad is a very effective opener of corrupt files and is installed by default in Windows. It is particularly effective if you have a DOCX file and you have a zip program that repairs corrupt zips. Repairing the zip corruption is enough often to get it to open in WordPad (or even Word!). WordPad is also in the Windows Accessories folder of the Start Menu. Corrupt Extractor for Microsoft Office, Info-ZIP's Zip, Peazip and Izarc all have zip repair facilities and are freeware or open source freeware. I blurred the results in the photo to protect the original document owner.You can also try viewing a copy of the file in Windows Notepad, or the free NotePad++ or even changing the extension of the copy of your file to txt and trying to open the file in WordPad or Word. This will for instance tell you if there are any characters in the file at all or if they are all the Null or blank character, in which case nothing can be done and you need an earlier, lost, temporary, deleted or unsaved version of your file to look at instead. Note it is very important to not open the original file in NotePad as it changes the structure of the file, itself causing corruption. Opening a copy of the file is enough to tell you if there is any substance to your file. NotePad++ doesn't have this problem. Note too, as mentioned, you can look for the characters "PK" in DOCX files as they indicate that the file has recoverable zip structure. Each subfile in a zip file is itself zipped up in a separate package and each of those packages starts with the characters "PK". If you change the extension to TXT and open it in WordPad or Word, it may also corrupt the DOCX or DOC structure, so be sure to only use a copy of your baby. DOC file normally start with the characters "ÐÏ" without the quotes. They also normally have a few zipped up sub-files at the end of the file. However they do not have the all important document.xml sub-file where all the text is stored in a DOCX file.AbiWord (open source freeware)AbleWord the Free Word Processor and PDF editor (freeware)Atlantis Nova (just for DOC files).iBlune Office (freeware)PolyEdit Lite (freeware)QJot (freeware)WordIt Word Processor (freeware)Free Office Suites With Word ProcessorsLibre Free Office Suite (open source freeware)Apache OpenOffice (open source freeware)SoftMaker FreeOffice (freeware)WPS Office 2016 Personal Edition (freeware)Online Word Processors and Office SuitesGoogle DocsMicrosoft Word OnlineZoho OfficeCorrupt Word Document Repair SoftwareCorrupt File Text Recovery (Freeware and Open Source Freeware)BinText - a GUI text extractor useful mainly for DOC files (freeware).CMD Corrupt OfficeOpen2txt - command line version of * Corrupt Extractor for Microsoft Office - see below (freeware)Corrupt DOCX Salvager - a simple gui DOCX file only text extractor (open source freeware).Corrupt Extractor for Microsoft Office - a gui text and image extractor for DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files. It also has a zip repair function built in (open source freeware).Corrupt Office Salvager - another simple GUI for opening Microsoft Office files including Word. Is very similar to Corrupt DOCX Salvager (open source freeware).MvOLE - command line DOC only reader of even corrupt files (open source freeware).Repair My Word - A gui DOC file only text extractor (freeware).SilverCoder's DocToText - excellent command line app which Works for DOC and DOCX as well as ODT Open Office format files (open source freeware).Sandeep Kumar's Docx2txt - command line utility for extracting text from DOCX files. I believe it has a different algorithm than DocToText (open source freeware).Corrupt File Repair With Formatting (Freeware and Open Source Freeware) - Read here about tag mismatch reordering and here about unspecified errors.Corrupt Open Office Recovery (open source freeware for extracting text and sometimes fixing Open Office files).Microsoft's Fixit Math Document Fixer (freeware tag reorderer - see the video below)Microsoft Office Visualization Tool (the first link is for the paper describing it. It's actually downloaded from: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=158791 - this freeware fixes that only DOC files and not very often, but interesting concept)S2 Recovery Tools for Microsoft Word (open source freeware)Savvy DOCX Recovery (open source freeware)Tony Jolan's Word Toolbar Add-in Template (freeware tag reorderer)Word Corrupt Document Checker (open source freeware tag reorderer)Commercial Software ( Don't pay for software before trying the demos first!!)DataNumen Word Repair (commercial)DocRepair (commercial)Easy Office Recovery (commercial)DOCX Open File Tool/DOCX ViewerTool/Word Recovery Toolbox (commercial)Hetman Word Recovery (commercial)Kernel for Word (commercial software that apparently Microsoft doesn't trust at the moment, so Windows won't let me install it)R-Word (commercial)RecoveryFix for Word (commercial)Recovery for Word (commercial)Remo Repair Word (commercial)SFWare Repair Word Document (commercial)Spinrite - industry standard tool for recovering from disk errors which might be causing file corruption (commercial)Stellar Phoenix Word Repair (commercial)SysInfoTools MS Word DOCX Repair (commercial)SysTools DOCX Recovery (commercial)SysTools Word Recovery (commercial)Wordfix (my favorite commercial app as I have an affiliate relationship with them and they have paid me a percentage of sales starting from links in my websites. I guess it works pretty well too from the volume of sales I see.)Yodot DOC Repair for Windows (commercial)Patches to Prevent Word from Causing Corruption In the FutureWord 2000 Fix: Font Repair Macro - Fixes Word 2000 Eastern European Font Error Text Character Corruption.Service Pack 2 (and SP1 for that matter) for Office 2010 fixes the issue of "The end tag does not match the start tag" error for Word.Word 2007 hotfix for fixing "unspecified errors" occurring after installation of security update MS08-072 (you must have Office SP1 or SP2 installed).Word 2010 hotfix for corruption (probably "unspecified errors" again) caused when editing math formula.ServicesFree Services3ice's Online Manual Unspecified Error recoveriesJeeped and Doug Robbin's free XML fixing DOCX repairs.OfficeRecovery Online (free after 14 days)Paid ServicesMunSoft Online Data Recovery ($9.95 for recovery of 10 files over 3 days.)OfficeRecovery Online ($39 for instant access, free after 14 days also has volume discounts)Online File Repair Service ($5 plus $1 for every 50 MB over 100 MB)S2 Services file recovery ($5 for manual analysis, $17 for successful manual recovery)AdviceRecovery and Repair AdviceA great post by Rohn007 on reordering math tags in Word 2007 (without SP3) and Word 2010 (without SP1).A primer on the structure of DOC and DOCX files and how they become corrupt.Dedoimedo's How to recover corrupt Microsoft Word files.EndNote associated Word corruption and how to recover from it.Easy to follow guide how to unzip a corrupt DOCX, take the document.xml file from a corrupt DOCX and paste it into a blank file's zip structure and recover the text if not some of the formatting.Famous article of legacy advice on corruption in older versions of Word, from I believe two Microsoft Word MVP's.Fixing an unspecified error by opening the file in Word online and remove the table of contents and then saving and re-opening in the desktop version of Word.Fixing persistent template corruption...Fixing "Word cannot start the converter mswrd632" error. This is probably a legacy issue. The link is to a Microsoft article with a Fixit app that apparently changes the registry to fix this issue.Instructions for manually fixing malformed xml from the word/document.xml sub-file In The DOCX.Microsoft article regarding changing the normal document opening macro to one that always opens and repairs the automatically.Microsoft article on how to recover previous and unsaved versions of Office files, including Word ones.Microsoft's description of how it creates and recovers autorecover files.Microsoft's description of how it creates temporary files for Word.Microsoft's on searching for lost, deleted, temporary and unsaved Word documents.Microsoft's troubleshooting advice for Word files that you can still open and those you can't.S2 Services' "Secrets of Recovering Corrupt Word DOCX Files."S2 Services' "Word DOC and DOCX Recovery Steps."Ways to fix out of order math tags when encountering a "The name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag" error.WikiHow's advice about how to search for previous versions, lost, temporary, deleted, unsaved copies of your file, with nice pictures.WikiHow's advice about repairing corrupt Word files, with more nice pictures.Prevention AdviceUsing Windows 8, 8.1 and 10's File History File Version Backups to a Removable DriveSetting Up and Using Windows 7 Previous File SystemFrom this article: Track changes can be buggy. Avoid if possible. Don't apply direct formatting, instead use paragraph styles to make all formatting changes. Don't use drag and drop if you can avoid it. Make sure auto-recovery is turned on and set for at least every 10 minutes. Avoid DOC files, using DOCX ones instead.More Rohn007 advice: Use AutoHistory for Word 2007, Word 2010 and Excel 2010 app that saves a new file with a date stamp in a separate folder for each named file. The new files are created at the time of each save.Some Word backup add-ins (for example is an add-in saving the working file in two places every time) recommended by Rohn007.Word macro that makes a backup copy of Word files to another drive.Video TutorialsManually Finding Autosaved Word Files and Opening Them in WordUsing Corrupt office2txt, now called Corrupt Office Salvager is very similar to Corrupt DOCX SalvagerCorrupt Extractor for Microsoft Office DemonstratedMicrosoft's Fixit Tag Reorderer Tool demonstrated (a bit jumpy and seems to repeat itself)In a Mac using a viewer to view a corrupted file that will no longer open in Pages, Taking screenshots and then doing OCR to recreate the text like scanner software might do with a page of a book scanned to get the text into editable text. This would apply to Windows as well if you could find a viewer that opens your file.Using Hetman File Recovery to find lost, deleted, temporary, previous and unsaved versions of your file. Word Regenerator, PhotoRec and Recover My Files probably work similarly.Try reinstalling or repairing Word in your Control Panel applet called Programs and Features. After repairing the install, try opening the file again.Video showing how to open speed the opening of Word by removing the Protected View options. To do this, open a new blank document in Word, go to Options, click on Trust Center, clicking on the Trusted Center Settings and then Protect View, from there the video maker, unchecks the three kinds of Enable Protected View. He/She saves the configuration and successfully reopens the file. As is done in the video you may need to first repair the install of Microsoft Office or Word.

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This is a Benchmark tool which determines the speed of your PC’s Hardware and then gives a score!SpaceSnifferThis is an awesome tool to manage disk space by deleting unnecessary data. It shows a visual representation of the data present in a disk.SteamThe most popular Game Client where you can get free as well as paid games which are played around the world!Subtitle EditEver got irritated by not having subtitles in sync for your favourite movies and TV shows? Use this free tool to simply edit the delays and unsynced portions of the subtitles.TagScannerAwesome tool to edit or add mp3 metadata to files! Specially useful if you have a collection of old songs whose metadata needs to be updated to get lyrics on musixmatch or similar apps. Edit tags of multiple files at once!VLC Media PlayerI don’t need to say anything about this. It’s one and only one must have video player!Snipping ToolFinally, the one software which took screenshots of the programs above! No need to download this, it’s already in your operating system. Superb tool!I guess this is too much! Cheers!Edit 1:Some useful website to do some unusual stuff:Online OCR - convert scanned PDF and images to Word, JPEG to WordOCR means Optical Character Recognition. Suppose you have a book and you want to share some content on a computer, so you would have to type the content manually. It will consume time. So what you have to do is just click a photo of the text content, and upload it on this website, it will scan the image and give you documented text in MS Word or Notepad format. As simple as that! Isn't it awesome?HtmlOnline - Online HTML EditorTired of writing html tags while developing a website? You don't need a fancy software such as Adobe Dreamweaver and all to easily write html code. Just visit this site add and edit content like in MS Word and the tags will automatically follow through.Will think of more. Later!Edit 2:I missed some important Chrome Extensions which every chrome browser must have!Adblock PlusThis one is must. Drastically improves your browsing experience by removing all the ads from every web page.Data SaverThis is one hell of an extension which really saves some data! If you have a limited bandwidth or use mobile data, then it’s must have! It just processes the web pages before the browser downloads them, via Google servers!Checker Plus for GmailThis one is great extension which notifies about new email when they receive and we can directly mark them as unread or trash them from the notification itself without opening the mail account. Time saving!The QR Code ExtensionSuppose you’re reading something sitting in front of your computer and then feel sleepy but need to read the whole thing. Just pick up your phone, open the browser and scan the qr code this extension generates when you click on it. Voila! No need to search for the page or type the whole URL! Again Time Saving!Google DictionaryThis is absolutely amazing! While reading you may come up with an unknown word, and then you open a tab, and search for the word on google. No need! Just double click on that word and voila! A box pops up showing it’s meaning! Real time saver!Google translateSame as above! No need to open a tab and search for the translation! Save your time!SpeedtestNo need to visit the website and waste time till it’s loading. Just click on this extension and get superfast speed results!LastPassThis is the one popular password manager which can store securely, your passwords, notes such as ID numbers of important documents, form filling data such as card numbers, etc in one place!Musixmatch Lyrics for YouTubeIf you need lyrics while watching music videos on YouTube, this one displays them automatically as subtitles. You don’t have to do anything!Save to PocketA handy extension which stores important URLs in one place so that you can access them later on your phone or anywhere to read them later.MomentumThis is one of a kind extension! There are many extensions which display some or the other things when we open a new tab. But this one is simple and interesting and amazing! This one randomly picks up an image of a landmark, and a random quote for the day! The quotes are so inspiring and the images are catchy! And the main feature of this one is you can put up a list for the things you have to do in a day, so that whenever you open a tab, you’ll see them and remember that you have to finish them by the end of the day. Say bye to Procrastination!Cheers!