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Pix2Text
Open-Source Python3 tool for recognizing layouts, tables, and math
An Open-Source Python3 tool for recognizing layouts, tables, math formulas, and text in images, converting them into Markdown format. A free alternative to Mathpix, empowering seamless conversion of visual content into text-based representations. 80+ languages are supported. Pix2Text (P2T) aims to be a free and open-source Python alternative to Mathpix, and it can already accomplish Mathpix's core functionality. Pix2Text (P2T) can recognize layouts, tables, images, text, and mathematical formulas, and integrate all of these contents into Markdown format. P2T can also convert an entire PDF file (which can contain scanned images or any other format) into Markdown format. -
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FCKeditor
FCKeditor (retired)
FCKeditor is the previous version of CKEditor and has been discontinued after version 2. The new CKEditor is redesigned from the ground up, offering more WYSIWYG text editing features, enhanced security and better integration. Don’t force yourself with retro FCKeditor. Switch to the new, cool CKEditor at ckeditor.com -
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AutoText
Text expander(auto-type) application
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. -
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DocBook to LaTeX Publishing transforms your SGML/XML DocBook documents to DVI, PostScript or PDF by translating them in pure LaTeX as a first process. MathML 2.0 markups are supported too. It started as a clone of DB2LaTeX.
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Linguistico is a linguistics tools project based on Italian language. Tools are: dictionaries, thesaurus, words definitions, scripts, programs, ... For: OpenOffice.org LibreOffice ThunderBird Mozilla FireFox - MySpell MyThes Aspell HunSpell
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XML Tree Editor
Basic cross-platform tree view XML editor
XMLTreeEdit displays XML files as tree views and allows basic operations: adding, editting and deleting text nodes and their attributes. The main goal is providing a simple tool to create/edit XML configuration files for users without knowledge of XML. Built in Free Pascal Lazarus, which allows easy compilation for different target platforms. Currently binary executables were produced and tested on Windows (XP, 7) and Ubuntu Linux (GTK2). For developers: there are two units listed separately to support XML configuration files in your application: XMLfile.pas - Lazarus/Free Pascal uXMLConfig.pas - Delphi (2007..XE2) -
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Asciidoctor
A fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain
A fast text processor & publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc to HTML5, DocBook & more. Asciidoctor is a fast, open source, Ruby-based text processor for parsing AsciiDoc® into a document model and converting it to output formats such as HTML 5, DocBook 5, manual pages, PDF, EPUB 3, and other formats. Asciidoctor also has an ecosystem of extensions, converters, build plugins, and tools to help you author and publish content written in AsciiDoc. Asciidoctor reads the AsciiDoc source, and converts it to publishable formats, such as HTML 5. Asciidoctor provides built-in converters for three output formats by default: HTML 5, DocBook 5, and man page (short for manual page). Additional converters, such as PDF and EPUB 3, are provided by separate gems. Asciidoctor also provides an out-of-the-box HTML experience complete with a default stylesheet and built-in integrations. -
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Helix
A post-modern modal text editor
Helix is a modal (Kakoune/Vim‑inspired) terminal-based text editor written in Rust. It features modern modal editing, multiple selections, smart syntax highlighting, and built-in language server (LSP) integration leveraging tree‑sitter for fast, incremental parsing and code intelligence. -
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Marker
A Desktop App for Easily Viewing and Editing Markdown Files
Marker is an open-source, user-friendly UI for writing & editing markdown files. Everything you create lives in your filesystem. -
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Nextcloud Text
Collaborative document editing using Markdown
Nextcloud Text is a collaborative document editor that lets you work, share and collaborate with friends and colleagues on documents. Though it is available in Nextcloud 16 and 17, anybody can access Text whether they’re using Nextcloud or not. Nextcloud Text files are saved as Markdown, so they can be edited from any other text app. Nextcloud Text is lightweight and distraction-free, giving you only the formatting that you need so you can focus on writing. -
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PanWriter
Markdown editor with pandoc integration and paginated preview
PanWriter is a distraction-free markdown editor with two unique features. Tight integration with pandoc for import/export to/from plenty of file formats (including HTML, docx, LaTeX and EPUB). Preview pane that can show pages – including page breaks etc. Layout adjustments are immediately reflected in the preview. Instead, you can write text in Markdown, a convention on how to write plain text files. Basically, it’s like you would write an email. -
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Simplenote for Electron
Simplenote for Web, Windows, and Linux
A Simplenote React client packaged in Electron. All your notes, synced on all your devices. Get Simplenote now for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, or in your browser. Notes stay updated across all your devices, automatically and in real-time. There’s no “sync” button, It just works. Add tags to find notes quickly with instant searching. Share a to-do list, post some instructions, or publish your notes online. Notes are backed up with every change, so you can see what you noted last week or last month. Write, preview, and publish your notes in Markdown format. Apps, backups, syncing, sharing, it’s all completely free. Download Simplenote for any device and stay in sync, all the time, everywhere. -
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Biblatex is a LaTeX package which provides full-featured bibliographic facilities
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Graphite is a project within SIL's scripts and software dev groups to provide cross-platform rendering for complex writing systems. This project has been deprecated. Graphite2, a new version of the Graphite engine, is available at: https://github.com/silnrsi/graphite with its own bug tracker.
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CodeLite
CodeLite: an open source, cross platform C/C++/PHP and JavaScript IDE
codelite is an open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++/PHP and JavaScript programming languages (build and tested on Windows 7, 8, ubuntu >=14.04 plus debian, fedora and openSUSE, and Mac OSX 10.8.4). codelite is distributed under the terms of the GPLv2 license If you need help with codelite, please join our forums at: http://forums.codelite.org Visit our download page at: http://codelite.org/support.php The CodeLite Team -
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WordTsar
WordTsar is a Wordstar 7.0D clone
Wordstar for the 21st Century. WordTsar is a Wordstar 7.0D document mode clone. It loads Wordstar 4, Wordstar 7, RTF (partial) files, and DOCX (partial) files, and saves in Wordstar 7 and RTF format. Wordstar files MUST have a .ws extension to load properly. -
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docx2txt
Perl based utility to extract formatted text content from MS Docx file
Docx2txt is a Perl based command-line utility to convert (even corrupted) Microsoft docx documents to reasonably formatted text files, along with appropriate character conversions. Apart from Perl it also requires a command line unzipping program like unzip/7z/pkzipc/wzunzip. -
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Search and replace operations on file content accross multiple files. Recursive operations within entire directory trees. FAR comes with support for regular expressions (regex) over multiple lines, automatic backup and various character encodings. Run grep like extractions to condense or rearrange sources, or perform bulk file renaming.
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The Hessling Editor (THE) is a cross-platform text editor. Based on the IBM mainframe editor XEDIT, and includes many features of Kedit. All of THE is configurable, including syntax highlighting. THE uses Rexx as its macro language.
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Writer2LaTeX and Writer2xhtml is a collection of converters from OpenDocument Format (ODF) to LaTeX/BibTeX, HTML+MathML and EPUB. It is delivered as a standalone java library, as a command line application and as extensions for LibreOffice.
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Ferrite
A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML
Ferrite is a fast, lightweight desktop text editor built for people who spend a lot of time working in structured text formats and want a snappy, native-feeling app instead of a heavy IDE. It focuses on common “config and docs” formats like Markdown and popular structured data files, so it fits naturally into developer, DevOps, and technical writing workflows. The editor is designed around responsiveness and low overhead, prioritizing quick startup, smooth scrolling, and predictable editing even when you are jumping between many small files. It also aims to reduce friction when reading and tweaking structured documents by offering format-aware conveniences and a UI that stays out of the way. Ferrite positions itself as a pragmatic daily driver for notes, documentation, and configuration edits, especially when you do not need a full language server stack. -
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HarfBuzz
Open source text shaping engine
HarfBuzz is an open source text-shaping engine with a C API that turns fonts and strings of character codes into a form that is correctly arranged for the corresponding language and writing system. This is essentially the process of text shaping: translating a string of character codes into a properly arranged sequence of glyphs that can be rendered onto a screen or into final output form for inclusion in a document. This shaping depends on a number of factors: the input string, the active font, the script (or writing system) of the string, and the string's language. Various font formats have their own set of standard text-shaping rules. With Harfbuzz, you can properly shape all the major writing systems. HarfBuzz is cross-platform and supports all major software platforms and font formats. -
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Helix Editor
A post-modern modal text editor
A Kakoune / Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust. The editing model is very heavily based on Kakoune. -
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Lem
Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility
Lem is the editor/IDE well-tuned for Common Lisp. After installing lem, you can start developing in Common Lisp at once. You can skip over writing tidy settings or installing many plugins as you do on Emacs. Lem loads when starting up. Electron version is in the experimental stage. -
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Oni
Oni: Modern Modal Editing
Oni is a new kind of editor, focused on maximizing productivity - combining modal editing with features you expect in modern editors. Oni is built with neovim, and inspired by VSCode, Atom, LightTable, and Emacs. The vision of Oni is to build an editor that allows you to go from thought to code as easily as possible - bringing together the raw editing power of Vim, the feature capabilities of Atom/VSCode, and a powerful and intuitive extensibility model - wrapped up in a beautiful package.
