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Extract Text from Images & Scanned PDF Manuals Online

Extract Text from Images & Scanned PDF Manuals Online
Meet a free online OCR service that lets you perform Optical Character Recognition without having to install new software. You can convert scanned images and PDF documents into searchable and editable text from the web itself.

Buying American shares now as easy as investing in Indian equity

Buying American shares now as easy as investing in Indian equity
Indian investors can now do global hunting for investing in equity shares by choosing among the blue chips such as Microsoft, IBM, Wal-Mart, Coca Cola and Google. India’s number one online trading site, ICICIDirect.com has launched its overseas trading facility for Indian investors to invest upto $2 lakhs in a financial year in Equities, Exchange Traded Funds, Stock Options, Index Options.

Watch Chak De India for discount

Watch Chak De India for discount
In what may be a first of its kind promotional strategy, Bigtree Entertainment (owned by Web18, a TV18 Group company) is offering 25% discount on movie tickets for Chak De India booked through BookMyShow.com.

Angel Broking diluting stake to PE investors

Angel Broking diluting stake to PE investors
The trend is catching on. Most of the Indian stock broking players are reducing their dependence on pure broking services to ofeering value-added services. After Motilal Oswal, Edelweiss, India Infoline, its now Angel Broking which is in talks to sell 20% of its stake to Private Equity investors such as Lehman Brothers, Warburg Pincus and Carlyle Group.

ESPN acquires Cricinfo

ESPN acquires Cricinfo
World’s number one cricket website, Cricinfo.com has been acquired by world’s number one sports entertainment company. Cricinfo is a property of UK based Wisden Group while ESPN is a part of the media conglomerate ‘The Walt Disney Company’.

Educomp Solutions – a pot of gold for investors

Educomp Solutions – a pot of gold for investors
Educomp Solutions, a virtually unheard company, established in 1994, went public in 2006 and has given investor returns 10 fold since listing. It is India’s largest technology driven education company, using digital content for teaching and learning.