Open Source Python Text Processing Software

The EpiDoc Collaborative is developing specifications and tools for standards-based, digital publication and interchange of scholarly and educational editions of documentary and literary texts like inscriptions and papyri. The link below will take you to the EpiDoc home page on this site.

Buzz is a fast graphical editor for XML files with special support for OPML. Using the OPML convergence tools it will edit about any outline and many forms of indented text, including Python. In fact, Buzz was written with Buzz! It is written in P

Mamba is a extensible xml templates preprocessor wrote in Python. Using it, you can rapidly develop powerful applications ready to integrate with the internet. It can be used to work as a generic CGI program or for generate content.

Multiplayer Notepad is a collaboration tool that allows multiple users to edit a single document with real-time synchronization between them.

SilverCity is a lexing package, based on Scintilla, that can provide lexical analysis for over 20 programming and markup langauges. Scripting language bindings currently exist for Python.

Concurrence is a networked file editing program that enables multiple people to modify a document simultaneously. It is written entirely in Python, and uses the wxPython library for the GUI and the Twisted library for networking.

SCons is a make replacement providing a range of enhanced features such as automated dependency generation and built in compilation cache support. SCons rule sets are Python scripts so as well as the features it provides itself SCons allows you to use the full power of Python to control compilation. This is a SCons extension (tool) which enables usage of the dvipdfm program to convert dvi files to pdf.

EFM is a tool for fiction writers. It converts a plain text format into RTF. Someday it may do fancier things; see the homepage for details.

FictionVocabulary is a tool for counting words in text files. It uses vocabularies with word sets e.g. 1000 most useful words etc. Counting occurs through vocabularies, so word list consists only of words which are not represent in vocabularies

Indexmeister reads a variety of formats (.tex, .docx, .epub, and others) and suggests keywords for indexing. The included program Imbrowse provides a semi-automatic interface to rapidly add index tags to multi-file latex documents.

KeyBindings is a plugin for gedit written in python. It lets you use (and eventually define) key combinations for usual actions such as switching tabs, closing tabs, etc.

Turn a PC keyboard into a Musical Instrument! Keyano has the ability to turn your PC into a Musical Keyboard, or select Alphabet mode and it becomes fun and educational for the Kids. Type "A B C" and it says them out loud while it shows letters on screen

This GUI lets the user navigate a wide selection of LaTeX structure and formatting tags that are used to write a document in LaTeX. It also has a raw text input box with a LaTeX preview for testing out LaTeX markup. Also, each markup has associated help text and is automatically selected to be ready to paste into the user's text editor. Also, this GUI lets the user choose which text editor and supporting programs are used to create their LaTeX document instead of forcing them into a particular interface of a pre-defined IDE.

This project is for any english literature usage. It checks spelling, repetition, and soon will check grammar. It has database manipulation so you can add/delete words to ignore for both repetition and spelling. It is mainly targetted for forums.

Pylero is an open-source Python-based text generator.

This Python script syntax highlighting in Scribus was written for the magazine layout "PROgrammer". Preview archives publications can be reached at http://raxp.radioliga.com. #Scribus Has built an incomplete version of the interpreter language Python. 1. First you need to enter at the beginning of the text object tag (eg. [Tem]) 2. Then, while maintaining isolation on a text object, "Stsenarii-> Run script" 3. Select the script. 4. Then, use this: "Stsenariy-> Recent stsenarii-> Script". 5. The script reads the text, looking for keywords, comments, figures, and then allocates them.

SrcComDoc allows documentation written in source comment rows to be extracted, formatted and highlighted according to the chosen documentation format. The basic SrcComDoc syntax is source and documentation language independent.

TextLite is meant to become a text editor, quick, fast, and simple, dedicated to the generation of plain text ASCII files.

xml2txt is a text formatter for XMl in the same way the FO is a PDF formatter. It uses python to convert an XML document to well-formatted text, wtih borders, indents, and tables.

fasttran is a TM-based tool for computer-aided human translations, designed for maximum simplicity of use.

iDocs is a intellectual document work flow with text mining options project.

The project is intended to be a text preproccesor that works using user-generated xml files describing certain rules to be applied. It's thought for general use on any text file where a pattern can be specified to apply an "xml rule" over it.

pdfplayground is a collection of tools written in python to read/write PDF files.

a LaTeX formula converter to png images using a nice GTK gui

sPOP means Small Python Office Package.The sPOP suite got a editor,filemanager,timetable,..programs. The sPOP programs are small and they are program that you can learn from them.