Google Announces Plans For Online Presentations Tool

Google just announced on its blog plans to launch a web-based presentations tool this summer.
The Presentations software (currently unnamed) will be part of the Docs & Spreadsheets suite of office tools, a suite that will probably need to get its own name once it has three parts. Google Docs, Spreadsheets & Presentations doesn’t quite have a good ring to it.
The technology is coming from Tonic Systems, which Google has just bought. From the new FAQ on Tonic’s site:
Tonic Systems is a San Francisco-based company that provides Java presentation automation products and solutions for document management – Tonic Systems Builder, Tonic Systems Filter, Tonic Systems Transformer, Tonic Systems Viewer, and JarJar Links. Features of their products included text extraction for indexing documents, presentation creation capabilities and document conversion tools.

Tonic’s site says they provide Java-based PowerPoint solutions, including “Java library to extract text from presentations with full contextual data”, […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg