Open Source Python Text Processing Software

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A Python Scripting plugin for Notepad++. Complete easy script access to all of the editor's features (including absolutely everything in Scintilla). Configurable menus and toolbar options, assign shortcuts to scripts.

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.

PDF-Shuffler is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a frontend for python-pyPdf.

Bundles Portable Python (with PyGTK) and Meld together in an easy to use installer. This allows you to not have to worry about setting up Python or PyGTK and you can keep Meld's Python separate from other Python installations on your machine. ** NOTE ** Meld 3.11 and later now have official installers, hence this project is no longer supported. You can download the new installer here: https://download.gnome.org/binaries/win32/meld/. You should uninstall the old 1.8 version before upgrading.

DrPython is a highly customizable cross-platform ide to aid programming in Python. It was developed with teaching in mind, and has a clean, simple interface. It is written in Python, using wxPython as the gui.

PyRtfLib is a python library that provides a parser and few translators like rtf to html and to simple text.

rpl is a text replacement utility. It will replace strings with new strings in multiple text files. It can work recursively over directories and supports limiting the search by file suffixes. This version was originally written by Göran Weinholt.

Tomoe is a handwriting character recognition engine.

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.

Teng is a general purpose templating engine written in C++ (i.e. library). It is also available as Python module or PHP extension. The main idea of teng is to strictly separate application logic from presentation layer. Widely used on dynamic web sites.

The Python scripts for the conversion from the Chinese Pinyin transcription(ISO 7098) to International Phonetic Alphabet(IPA), comprised of a core module for developers and a flexible GUI application for the common end-users on Modern Chinese phonetics.

DocLite is a simple documentation authoring system, it produces multi-page HTML output (like this document) in a style similar to that found in the Linux HOTWTOs or other DocBook created documents.

A framework for creating freeware Truetype fonts based on Metafont language. Glyph outlines and bitmaps are converted, using a number of utilities, into TTF and BDF format.

xtopdf: Tools to convert other formats (x) to PDF; x as in math. - solve for x :-) Currently x == {.txt, .DBF}. Others to follow. Benefits: all those of PDF (better cross-platform viewing/printing, read-only, etc.)

Atox is a fully customizable Python library and command-line tool for converting plain text into XML.

The converter performs automatically the full process of converting the files of a C project into the equivalent C++ files. Classes are created, var and functions becomes attributes and methods and the changes are propagated into all files.

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

Queequeg is an English grammar checker for non-native English speakers.

SE|PY is an ActionScript editor written in python, wxPython and using scintilla for text highlight, code collapsing. some features: snippets panel, functions panel and much more. Contain also Flush

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.

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

arCHMage is a reader and decompiler for files in the CHM format. This is the format used by Microsoft HTML Help, and is also known as Compiled HTML.

Latex2slides is a simple graphical program that produces a set of HTML/JPEG slides from a TeX or LaTeX source. Each Postscript page is converted to a JPEG image using ImageMagick's convert. The program then makes one HTML page for each JPEG (or slide), a