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.

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/.

AutoText is a text expander(auto-typer) application that can minimize time that you spent typing phrases that your often use. You can bind an abbreviation(autotext) to some text snippet, phrase or sentence and that text will be automatically typed by AutoText each time you type the abbreviation. Keyboard keys press/hold/toggle is supported by using macros. AutoText works in any Windows program.

Pdftohtml is a tool based on the Xpdf package which translates pdf documents into html format.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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/

PyRTF is a pure python module for the efficient creation of RTF documents.

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.

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.

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.

Early Access iText, a PDF generation library in Java

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.

This application allows user to download chapters from website in 3 ways: - from table of contents; - from range: first chapter address, last chapter address; - by crawling from first chapter to n; In settings you can customize language, input(website encoding) for simplicity output is in the same encoding. If you want your language add new class into strings package, and new fields into Settings class and GUI menu(initialize method).

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.

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 ....

XML Differencing and Patching tools. XML based tools to mimic the functionality of traditional line based diff and patch utils, except operating on the hierarchical structure of XML.

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.