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"ImageToText app allows you to extract editable ASCII text from images, and share the results by EMAIL or EVERNOTE. The app is free, very easy to use, and requires NO REGISTRATION. Simply take a picture of a document that you would like to extract text from, and e-mail the image to yourself, co-workers, friends. You will all receive not only the image but a text file that contains the editable text that is extracted from the image."

"We offer AAC Comunication Board Editor, Player software and image search engine service. As any other image editor software, Picto4me does not restrict you to only make use of  free images. Some of the images can be placed on websites without any conditions but there will be cases where legal rights would be requested and should be acquired from its author. As an image search service, Picto4Me is not responsible for the use of the pictures returned by the search. "

"Finding free quality images is a tedious task - mainly due to copyright issues, attribution requirements, or simply lack of quality. This inspired us to create Pixabay - a repository for outstanding public domain images. You can freely use any image from this website in digital and printed format, for personal and commercial use, without attribution requirement to the original author."

The SAMR model helps teachers and educators understand and better integrate  technology into their teaching and learning. This model was created by Dr Robin Puentudura with the explicit aim of helping teachers in designing, developing and integrating digital media to increase students overall academic achievements. The four levels of this model are : Substitution, augmentation, modification and redefinition. Have a look at the image below to learn more about these four levels. The image is taken from Summer Tech Institute.

"PDF Connoisseur does it all for you ✔ Save to PDF - converting other doc formats into PDFs ✔ PDF Page Editor - rearrange or truncate pages in PDF and save it as a new file ✔ PDF flatten - preserve all the edits and valuable information within a PDF ✔ Text-to-Speech - listen to your documents ✔ Image to text - turn your images into searchable text files with OCR recognition ✔ PDF form filling & contract signing ✔ Easy file transfer with all manner of cloud storage services, FTP, and WebDAV ✔ Highlight, annotate, and add built-in stamps to PDFs"

"Snapify widget. Snapify enables contextual web browsing through image markers and word highlights. All you need to do is highlight a word or click an image marker and 'Snap It'. Snapify will then open up its search box with results from mainstream search engines such as Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google News and even Maps. "

"Prizmo is a universal photo-based scanner app that lets you scan and recognize text documents, business cards, and images, and then export them as PDF/Text, vCard, or JPEG/PNG. Prizmo relies on state-of-the-art technologies, like a highly accurate OCR, real-time page detection, and beautiful image cleanup. Using iCloud, you can even shoot the picture on your iPhone, and finish editing on your iPad or Mac. All of this in an elegant and intuitive user experience."

"Create beautiful detailed photo word clouds with your images and text! Choose your own words, select your favorite photo, pick a font and color palette and turn them in a work of art to impress friends and family. The result can be stored as a PNG, JPEG image or even a PDF document to allow for printing at extremely high resolutions."

"SonicPics is a very easy to use tool for turning your images into custom slideshow movies that you can share with your friends online! SonicPics lets you add images from your iPhone's photo library or camera, arrange your photos, and then narrate the project to create an enhanced m4v video (complete with chapters). "

a new search engine for images, mostly ones that have a Creative Commons license. It's design is easy to use and automatically shows whatever permissions are required.

"Dynamic Paper Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from ‑18 to 32 by 5's? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web."

"Welcome to the Visual Dictionary Online, the dictionary with a new point of view. A quick glance at the index is all it takes to connect words with images. Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images and see words like never before."

Create jpeg images of familiar photos, you write your text in place of the original

Convert scanned images into editable text. Free Online OCR is a free service that allows you to easily convert scanned documents, faxes, screenshots and photos into editable and searchable text, such as DOC, TXT or PDF. The service is completely free and you don't need to register or install anything on your computer. Just select an image file and click Convert. You can immediately download the resulting document.

Free Online Image Conversion - Simple & Easy Converter (Images, Graphics, Avatars, Anime ...)

"digital graphic organizers are more versatile. In Google Apps, there's a highly powerful yet highly overlooked app called Drawings. It gives users a blank canvas where they can add text, shapes, lines, etc. When done, they can save their work as image files or PDF files and can add those images to documents, slides and spreadsheets."

"A look at how visual supports for children with autism could be improved through customized supports and an open-source image librar"

7 Places & Ways to Find Copyright-friendly Images An article describing both familiar and not so familiar sites for free pictures.

"Today there are dozens of great Internet web pages that offer hundreds of thousands of free public domain and royalty free images that have been taken by other users on the Internet. Below is a list of some of the best available sites to find these pictures. "

"Simply put, Glog is a kind of poster - fully designed by yourself! Glog is a fancy creation from text, images, music and video"