An encyclopedia, encyclopaedia or enkyklia paideia as known in Greek means ‘general knowledge’ in contemporary English. Encyclopedia is a book or series of books that contain general information about many topics or areas. The word encyclopedia has been in use for at least 500 years, used in print for the first time in Encyclopaedia, or Knowledge of the World of Disciplines in 1559.
Often confused with a dictionary, An encyclopedia is inherently different from a dictionary. Its contents have more details and offer deeper insights to the topic. A dictionary merely gives definition to words, while an encyclopedia explores topics more deeply with illustrations, maps, and photographs. While most of them are arranged alphabetically, some encyclopedia are organized by categories or cross-referenced articles.
The first encyclopedia appeared in the first century BC. It had 37 volumes and covered subjects from anthropology, human physiology to painting, agriculture, and pharmacology. Then came an era of religious overtones, the first Christian encyclopedia in 560 AD, followed by first Muslim encyclopedia.
In 1403, the Yongle Encyclopedia was published in China as the longest encyclopedia ever, 11,000 handwritten volumes yet less than 400 volumes have survived the time till today. 20th century saw the era of Encyclopedia Britannica as the standard for encyclopedia works. Many encyclopedias being published in CD-ROM form like Microsoft’s Encarta™.
21st century encyclopedias are now getting online, with no print version. Undoubtedly an advantage of online encyclopedia is the fact that it can be kept up to date. Yet another advantage is you can download only those pages you need. Chances are they will be in PDF format. You can edit these pages online yourselves i8f you want. All that you have to do is upload PDF pages you want to edit on internet, convert into editable format and then edit easily.
You can google to find a site that converts documents online, once you have found the right site, upload PDF pages, within minutes you should be able to start editing. Chances are you will get many sites that will offer this service when you google. Some sites are free and some will charge a nominal fee or ask you to subscribe. Make sure you select the site that does high quality conversion.
There is a tendency to select free sites because they are free, but that’s not always preferred. Often best way to checkout if a site is good is to check if it charges for the service, If so it has to be doing things to provide its clients high quality outcome.
Here’s what a caution for those who love to download free stuff from Internet. A McAfee study found that searching for free stuff online increases your chance of landing on a site littered with malware. According to the study, by inserting the search term “free” with popular keyword, there is 300% increase in the chances of hitting a malicious site. So if you were to make a decision ‘to pay or not to pay’ what will be yours?
R Mathur CEO of JVIS, an IIT graduate, is in publishing space for over a decade using tehnology to provide efficient services, off line as well as online. For a high quality hands on experience visit http://www.OnlineDocumentConversion.com/ or contact rmathur@jvinfosol.com and learn exactly how you can upload, convert & then edit online – books, legal forms, contracts, agreements, power of attorney, books, invoice formats, etc etc. within minutes.
Here are 5 simple Steps you can do very quickly online from your home, office, internet cafe, library or wherever you are 24×7 of the day.
Step 1
Click on www.onlinedocumentconversion.com
Step 2
Click on Register FREE! button (Orange button)
Step 3
Enter your First & Last Name, email ID and Password
Once you are Registered you can start converting your tiff or
jpeg files online straightaway. (PDFs are uploaded separately – please see note below)
Step 4
From next time onwards just Login and do as follows:
-Click to upload your image file in appropriate box
-Select type of conversion you want( RTF, Doc or Txt )
-Press ‘Convert Now’ button
You will get following message:
Your file has been uploaded and is in the queue for conversion.
Please ‘click here’ to see your files.
* If your conversion was successful, you will receive an email as an attachment within 5 minutes approx
* If however, your file does not qualify as good quality or is
bigger in size, you will receive an email within 15 minutes approx that the file has been disqualified.
- You can download converted file by going to members area and delete them if you don’t need them any more. ( More than 10 files will be deleted by web administrator anyway)
Step5
-Your converted file is now ready for you to edit and do necessary changes
Note:
1) Please note you can convert only images online, any hand written documents or poor images can not be done online, they will be disqualified by the engine
2) You can convert PDF and all other types of image files formats offline by attaching and sending an email to production@jvinfosol.com
3)Please remember images should not exceed 2MB in size, otherwise they will be disqualified.
4) For just a few cents and safe payments like Paypal You will be able to convert some of your images for FREE initially as test. Once you have run out of credits you can cap up by buying more credits @ few cents per page through Paypal or credit card from as low as $5.0 pakage.
If you have any difficulty please contact production@jvinfosol.com where our trained staff is waiting to help you. Please allow 24-48 hours for them to respond.
It was not before I noticed my son was struggling to change his assignment to be submitted within hours could find his word files in his PC, re-entering data was impossible. On another occasion when I noticed my friends in Sales had to submit a proposal running in hundreds of pages with more than 90% common content had no time to re-enter and make similar proposal for another client – all that they needed was scan and edit. On yet another occasion when I noticed K-12 teachers had to make minor changes in their lesson plan images & printed documents had no way but to re-enter. Similarly my financial consultant not to mention my solicitors.
This is when I thought of bringing image conversion online with 5 easy steps www.onlinedocumentconversion.com hopefully may achieve this objective.
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