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Saturday, December 7, 2019

Zamzar, a free online file converter - a handy tool for academics and researchers

According to Wikipedia, the brothers Mike and Chris Whyley developed Zamzar in the United Kingdom and launched it in January 2006.

Zamzar "allows users to convert files without downloading a software tool, and supports over 1,200 different conversion types" (Wikipedia, 2019).

On Zamzar's website this tool is described as a "free online video converter, audio converter, image converter, eBook converter. No download or account required."

Examples of Zamzar's popular conversions:
PDF to Word        PDF to Excel
FLAC to MP3        DOC to PDF
EPUB to PDF        MP4 to MP3
PDF to DOC         WAV to MP3
MOV to MP4         Excel to PDF
PNG to PDF          PDF to JPG
DOCX to PDF       EPUB to MOBI
MP3 to WAV        MP4 to GIF
PPT to PDF          PNG to JPG
PDF to DWG        PDF to DOCX
FLV to MP4          Word to PDF

Zamzar's website:
https://www.zamzar.com

Zamzar described on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamzar