WINSLEEP by MollieSoft keeps your computer asleep (while not too busy) as much as possible during periods you specify.
** Runs on Windows 7, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.
** Provides a detailed time-line graph showing when your computer was awake, asleep, or hibernating.
** Sleep Journal shows when/why your computer woke up or went to sleep.
** Provides convenient Sleep and Hibernate buttons for manual use when desired.
** Use remote viewer WinSleep Monitor to connect from anywhere!
** Shows the current CPU/Disk/Network usage percentages for your computer.
** Define multiple sleep schedules (daily, weekly, or monthly time slot), each with a designated sleep policy with its own CPU/Disk/Network usage limits.
** Set wake schedules and an optional task (program) to be run at each wake.
** Helps prolong the life of your desktop computer. Your disk drive is not spinning, motherboard is not powered, fan is not running (and accumulating dust inside the computer casing), and your monitors are in standby mode.
** Saves money! A typical desktop uses 250 watts of electricity when awake, but only a few watts while asleep. Power companies (in the US) may bill at say 10 cents per kWH. This is .25 kWH @ 10 cents = 2.5 cents/hr you are saving while asleep. Say WinSleep sleeps your computer for half the day; this is $.30/day = $109.50 per year. The more you sleep, the more you save. (We didn’t even count the power consumption of the computer monitor here.)

ORPALIS PDF OCR software free edition is a very fast PDF to PDF-OCR converter. It offers a productive way to to transform scanned PDF documents to text searchable PDF by running optical character recognition (OCR).

ORPALIS PDF OCR free edition includes a high quality OCR engine built by recognized industry experts. It converts PDF into PDF/OCR single or multi-page documents with great speed and accuracy.
The latest technologies are used to to obtain a high performance layout analysis that allows character recognition regardless of the page orientation.
In the free edition the languages supported by the OCR engine are English, French, Spanish, German and Italian.

The intuitive and productive user interface makes the software user-friendly and time-saving.
The languages available for the interface are English and French.

To convert PDF into PDF/OCR it is really simple, only a few steps are required. First the source file (input) needs to be identified. Then the destination of the processed file (output) is specified. The last step is to select the language for the OCR conversion.
Optional parameters settings are available for the input mode that can be either a file or a folder. A convenient drag and drop option is also supported. Folders as well as sub-folders can be processed. The number of pages processed by the engine is displayed in real-time. For each document full log information is provided, as well as warnings and errors if any.
A pop-up window for automatic update notifications can be enabled or disabled.

File Joiner is a tool that combines (binds) unlimited files (no matter their type) into a single standalone executable (a Container file). The Container (the final bound file) is a compiled program that, when opened, will automatically launch the included files. The joined files can be fully encrypted.

The official File-Joiner site is www.file-joiner.com

File Joiner can run any type of file from the bound file (the container) without affecting its direct functionality. For instance, if you bind an executable, a text file and an image file, when the Container file is run, the executable will be run too while the other files will be opened with the default image file viewer (IrfanView, Paint etc.) and text file viewer (Notepad, Wordpad etc.).

File Joiner is compatible with Windows 2k, XP, VISTA, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 (32-bit and 64-bit).