Open Source Text Processing Software

Utilities for general- and special-purpose documentation. Includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.

Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can retrieve files for comparison from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories.

A Swiss Army Knife GUI application for PDF documents: combine, split, rotate, reorder (n-up, booklet), watermark, edit bookmarks/fileinfo/pagetransition, compress, encrypt, decrypt, sign, repair, edit attachments and more.

regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you're tired of hacking sed command lines together, then you should definitely give regexxer a try.

iText is an open-source PDF library available for Java and .NET (C#). iText allows you to effortlessly generate and manipulate standards-compliant PDF documents with a powerful and feature-rich SDK. With iText, you can create archivable and accessible PDFs, split and merge documents, fill and flatten forms, digitally sign documents, and more. iText add-ons enable additional functionality, such as PDF creation from HTML templates, secure redaction, OCR, and much more. The latest versions of iText build on the success of previous versions and feature an improved document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities, and a more efficient modular structure. iText represents the next level for developers looking to leverage PDF in document workflows. The main project page for iText is now on GitHub, and all the latest releases, code samples, open source add-ons and tools, etc. can be found at https://github.com/itext/.

Text search and replace. Scripting (small tool programs). CGI scripts. Execution of external programs (incl. I/O redirection). Garbage Collection. Extendended Booch Components. CD-Recorder

Vrapper is an eclipse plugin which acts as a wrapper for existing eclipse text editors to provide a Vim-like input scheme for moving around and editing text. Eclipse Update Site: http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/update-site/stable

A free computer-aided translation / computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool to align and converter bitext into TMX translation memory format to be used in other CAT tools by translators and other language professionals.

A translation tools suite for Computer-Aided Translation / Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT). A translation processor with translation memory, machine translation and project support, bitext aligner/converter, TMX validator, and others.

The XSD editor is a cross-platform XML editor. Although it can be used to edit any type of XML file, the editor is specifically designed to allow easy creation, editing, and validation of XML Schema (XSD) files.

Early Access iText, a PDF generation library in Java

Colorer provides source text syntax highlighting services. It colorizes source codes in editor systems (more than 200 syntaxes). Uses powerful HRC format(XML, RE, context free grammas), allowing to support any language. Available as Eclipse plugin.

PDF Clown is a general-purpose Java and .NET library for manipulating PDF files through multiple abstraction layers, rigorously adhering to PDF 1.7 specification (ISO 32000-1). This project aims to provide a universal access to PDF files (creation, reading, editing, rendering...) through an accurate and elegant object-oriented API. * Features: http://pdfclown.org/overview/features/ * Overview: http://pdfclown.org/overview/architecture/ * Website: http://pdfclown.org/ * Blog: http://www.pdfclown.org/blog/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/PDFClown

Diff-ext is an extension for filemanagers such as Windows Explorer and Nautilus that allows to launch diff/merge tools on selected files.

RefDB is a reference database and bibliography tool for SGML, XML, and LaTeX documents, sort of a Reference Manager or BibTeX for markup languages. It is portable and known to run on Linux, Free/NetBSD, OSX, Solaris, and Windows/Cygwin.

SciTECO is an interactive TECO dialect, similar to Video TECO. It also adds features from classic TECO-11, as well as unique new ideas. Project development takes place here: https://git.fmsbw.de/sciteco The download archive is mirrored at Sourceforge, but for nightly builds check out: https://sciteco.fmsbw.de/downloads/nightly/

RTF to HTML converter for use both with your applications and as a standalone tool. Small and fast. Processes tables better than any other tool I've seen.

Camomile is a Unicode library for ocaml. Camomile provides Unicode character type, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 strings, conversion to/from about 200 encodings, collation and locale-sensitive case mappings, and more.

PyWord is a powerful and flexible text editor written in Python. It aims to be similar to other, existing editors (including emacs), but has several unique features as well.

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.

a set LaTex plugins for Netbeans with full project management (multiple files allowed), editor, code completion (Ctrl-Space), build and view support (latex, bibtex and xdvi, linux), code injection (Alt-Enter), spellcheck, error and warning handling ....

TextSplitter is an open source GUI utility written in C# for .NET platform. Designed to split the text file into multiple files for a specified number of rows or the size of the resulting file. Encoding of input and output files can be selected.

My Dream Diary is a computer diary, that allows you to create and manage descriptions of dreams. Password protection, archiving, statistics, dream signs are the basic functions of this program.

PanDoc Graphical User Interface implemented with Electron for Linux, Mac and Windows. It support users in converting source documents into various other formats like docx, odt, html and reveal documentation. The zip files contain the full source code because PanDocElectron is written in HTML/Javascript. Electron is used more or less as browser that runs the HTML/Javascript application. [Download PanDocElectron](https://sourceforge.net/p/pandocelectron/wiki/Home/) Extract the zip-file from Downloads in your Documents folders (directory Documents/PanDoc). It contains support files PanDocElectron. The Application PanDocElectron is available on - (Homepage) http://github.com/niebert/PanDocElectron - (Wiki) https://sourceforge.net/p/pandocelectron/wiki/Home/

Functional XML parsing framework: SAX/DOM and SXML parsers with support for XML Namespaces and validation. Related to SSAX are SXPath queries and SXML transformations, with applications to XML/HTML authoring and literate Scheme and XML programming.