Have you ever wanted to copy a word document or a webpage to save the information for later use or integrate it somewhere else? If you have, you have probably been frustrated at grabbing all the pictures and links when you tried.
Well, Steve Miller has a great little program to help out with this problem. It is called PureText It is a small .exe program that basically strips most pictures and formatting out before executing the paste command. Great time saver. As a matter I used it to grab his description of what the software does to paste it into the bottom of this article.
This can be of use in computer forensics investigations. There may be times when you want to convey the text content of a page to your end-user without giving them the pictures on the page (sometimes they could even be illegal to transmit, i.e. child porn). This is a great little tool for that.