Open Source BSD Word Processors

Free alternative for Office productivity tools: Apache OpenOffice - formerly known as OpenOffice.org - is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications. OpenOffice is available in many languages, works on all common computers, stores data in ODF - the international open standard format - and is able to read and write files in other formats, included the format used by the most common office suite packages. OpenOffice is also able to export files in PDF format. OpenOffice has supported extensions, in a similar manner to Mozilla Firefox, making easy to add new functionality to an existing OpenOffice installation.

The AbiWord word processor is a full-featured cross-platform word processor.

A space to store classic OOo dependencies that cannot be easily redistributed in Apache OpenOffice's Source tree. Initially this was meant for copyleft tarballs only but it is also pretty handy to mirror other file dependencies.

Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex compounding or character encoding. Hunspell interfaces: Curses, Ispell compatible pipe interface, OpenOffice.org UNO module

Joe is world-famous Wordstar like text editor. Development has moved to Github (link in the toolbar), however Sourceforge still hosts downloads, issues, and mirrors.

Virastyar is a free and open-source (FOSS) spell checker. It stands upon the shoulders of many free/libre/open-source (FLOSS) libraries developed for processing low-resource languages, especially Persian and RTL languages Publications: Kashefi, O., Nasri, M., & Kanani, K. (2010). Towards Automatic Persian Spell Checking. SCICT. Kashefi, O., Sharifi, M., & Minaie, B. (2013). A novel string distance metric for ranking Persian respelling suggestions. Natural Language Engineering, 19(2), 259-284. Rasooli, M. S., Kahefi, O., & Minaei-Bidgoli, B. (2011). Effect of adaptive spell checking in Persian. In NLP-KE Contributors: Omid Kashefi Azadeh Zamanifar Masoumeh Mashaiekhi Meisam Pourafzal Reza Refaei Mohammad Hedayati Kamiar Kanani Mehrdad Senobari Sina Iravanin Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli Mohsen Hoseinalizadeh Mitra Nasri Alireza Dehlaghi Fatemeh Ahmadi Neda PourMorteza

Library for reading Corel WordPerfect(tm) documents.

Free teleprompter software. Built with web technologies so its easy to customize. Features include: mirroring, dual-screen support, rich text editing, image support, custom styles, and auto-save.

libwps is a Microsoft Works file format import filter based on top of the librevenge (see https://sourceforge.net/p/libwpd/wiki/librevenge/ ). Currently, libwps can import all word processing Works formats since about 1995 with some success. It may also be able to import some basic database and spreadsheet files.

Ayaspell project aims to provide arabic dictionaries for free office applications like OpenOffice.org, Firefox: spellchecking (hunspell-ar), thesaurus (thesaurus-ar) and Morphological lexicon (Grammar-ar). Maintained by Taha Zerrouki.

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.

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.

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.

AraWord is currently a part of ARASUITE!!!! Pleas, look for ARASUITE in Sourceforge!!!! https://sourceforge.net/projects/arasuite/ AraWord is a word processor that combines pictograms and text to help disabled people. More info: http://www.catedu.es/arasaac/index.php

xindy is an index processor that can be used to generate book-like indexes for arbitrary document-preparation systems. This includes systems such as TeX and LaTeX, the roff-family, and SGML/XML-based systems (e.g., HTML).

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.

The “Save as DAISY XML” add-in was created through an open source project with Microsoft, Sonata Software Ltd. and the Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium and can be downloaded on sourceforge.

ADAPRO is a free-to-use word processor geared towards individuals with a learning difficulty like dyslexia or a developmental disorder such as autism. Its adapted, seamless and configurable interface provides a simplified environment that can be relied, fostering the user's sustained attention. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose. Supports English, Spanish and Portuguese. If Java 6 or higher is already present on the computer, it does not even require installation. This project has been part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the PCT-MAC 2007-2013 programme.

Voikko is a spell checking, grammar checking, morphological analysis and hyphenation system. Spell checkers are available for multiple languages, other features for Finnish only.

The goal of this project is to provide spell check, grammar check and hyphenation for Bulgarian language for Open Source products such as OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, TeX, aspell, ispell, hunspell etc.

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.

OOoLilyPond (OLy) is an Extension for OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice. With OLy, you can include musical notation within text and presentation documents. The music expressions are entered as text codes and translated to images (png or eps) using LilyPond. The development has moved to GitHub (https://github.com/openlilylib/LO-ly). You will not find new releases here anymore.

Open Source Thesaurus for Polish Language, useful in many office applications such as OpenOffice.org

SimplyHTML is an application and a java component for rich text processing. It stores documents as HTML files in combination with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). SimplyHTML is not intended to be used as an editor for web pages.

Brahmi project aims at producing Java Input Methods and OpenType fonts for Indian languages. They are bundled with Brahmi - Word Processor which installs the fonts, Input Methods and font.properties files