Utilities

Crocodoc is a free service that lets you mark up and annotate documents collaboratively. You upload a file (DOC, PDF, PPT…) and Crocodoc converts it into a PDF-looking document that you (and anyone else who knows the URL) can mark up.

Note that it’s mark up only. You cannot edit the text. Even worse (for me), you cannot export the text in any way. Maybe that’s why they call it Crocdoc — it “eats” your document. As long as you stay within the service, it works well. You get basic mark-up tools, and it actually supports right-to-left documents (as you can see in the screenshots).

Bottom line: It’s only good if you need to collaboratively annotate a PDF or a Powerpoint. For Word files (or any other sort of editable text), Etherpad trumps this big-time.
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