Zamzar: A New Online Document Converter
Zamzar is a new free online document converter service. Zamzar will convert your documents from one format to another through its simple web-based interface. Currently, Zamzar supports various file formats in four categories, documents, images, video and audio. For complete details on what file formats are supported see the Zamzar website.
A quick glance at my applications folder revealed five small, one-off programs whose sole purpose is to convert various document formats. It makes so much more sense to have a web service to take care of this process.
Zamzar allows for multiple file conversions (provided all files are to and from the same formats) and will send you an email with a link to your converted file(s).
I frequently have to send .doc files to clients and since I don’t have an office program, this has always been quite a pain for me. Zamzar easily converted my plain text file into .doc format, eliminating the one headache of not having an office program.
Video and audio conversion will of course have some loss of quality when moving between compressed formats. I didn’t test those features, but Zamzar did successfully convert a cvs file to a MS Excel spreadsheet.
Currently Zamzar has a size limit of 100mb, but frankly even uploading something that large over HTTP is masochistic. I don’t imagine there’s too great of demand for bigger files.
Thanks to LifeHacker.
