Back in the day, before the introduction of Google Docs, ThinkFree Office was the only really usable online office suite. ThinkFree is still one of the more fully-featured offerings out there, but all that robustness comes at a price. While Google Docs and Zoho are entirely browser based and take seconds to load, the ThinkFree apps run on Java and can take up to several minutes to download – not very efficient if all you want to do is view a document.

Uni Paper is their solution to that particular problem. It’s a Flash-based document viewer, similar to Adobe’s Flash Paper. Once you’ve finished editing your document, click publish and you’ll get a chunk of code that lets you embed your document within a web page. Websites like Scribd offer something similar, but they’re biased towards document publishing, whereas ThinkFree is focused on document creation and collaboration. The online component is free, but you’ll need to purchase the full office suite if you want to work offline. Google Docs offers similar functionality, so it’s really a matter of preference; Flash versus HTML embedding, and features versus speed.

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