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    Doxygen
    Doxygen is a JavaDoc like documentation system for C++, C, Java and IDL.
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    Downloads: 13,100 This Week
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    plantuml
    PlantUml allows to quickly create some UML diagram using a simple textual description language.
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    Downloads: 5,053 This Week
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    TestLink

    TestLink

    Test & requirements management

    TestLink is a web based Test Management tool. The application provides Test specification, Test plans and execution, Reporting, Requirements specification and collaborate with well-known bug trackers. Repository: https://github.com/TestLinkOpenSourceTRMS
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    Downloads: 533 This Week
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    Mermaid

    Mermaid

    Diagram and flowchart generation from text similar to markdown

    Mermaid is a JavaScript-based diagram and flowchart generating tool that uses markdown-inspired text for fast and easy generation of diagrams and charts. Forget about using heavy tools to explain your code. Mermaid greatly simplifies documentation with its simple markdown-like script language, and offers a great range of diagram and chart options. The latest version of Mermaid comes with a number of bug fixes and enhancements, as well as a new diagram type, entity relationship diagrams. Its range of available diagrams include flowcharts, sequence diagrams, gantt diagrams and more, with new ones continuously being developed.
    Downloads: 113 This Week
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    Joplin

    Joplin

    Open source note taking and to-do app with synchronization

    Joplin is a free and open source note-taking and to-do application that can handle a large number of notes in Markdown format, organize them into notebooks and synchronize them with various cloud services. All notes can also be copied, tagged, searched and modified directly from the app or through your own text editor. Notes that are exported from Evernote can be imported into Joplin, be it formatted content, resources, complete metadata or plain Markdown files. When notes are synchronized with cloud services, notebooks, tags and other metadata can easily be moved, inspected or backed up as plain text files. Supported cloud services include Nextcloud, OneDrive, Dropbox and WebDAV. Joplin is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android, with three types: desktop, mobile and terminal. All of them have similar user interfaces and can be synchronized with each other.
    Downloads: 52 This Week
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    Swagger UI

    Swagger UI

    HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that generate Swagger documentation

    Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API. Simplify API development for users, teams, and enterprises with the Swagger open source and professional toolset. Find out how Swagger can help you design and document your APIs at scale. The power of Swagger tools starts with the OpenAPI Specification — the industry standard for RESTful API design. Individual tools to create, update and share OpenAPI definitions with consumers. SwaggerHub is the platform solution to support OpenAPI workflows at scale. Swagger open source and pro tools have helped millions of API developers, teams, and organizations deliver great APIs. Swagger offers the most powerful and easiest to use tools to take full advantage of the OpenAPI Specification.
    Downloads: 45 This Week
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    Swagger Editor

    Swagger Editor

    An editor designed for Swagger

    Swagger Editor lets you edit Swagger API specifications in YAML inside your browser and to preview documentations in real time. Valid Swagger JSON descriptions can then be generated and used with the full Swagger tooling (code generation, documentation, etc). swagger-editor is a traditional npm module intended for use in single-page applications that are capable of resolving dependencies (via Webpack, Browserify, etc). swagger-editor-dist is a dependency-free module that includes everything you need to serve Swagger Editor in a server-side project, or a web project that can't resolve npm module dependencies. If you're building a single-page application, using swagger-editor is strongly recommended, since swagger-editor-dist is significantly larger.
    Downloads: 44 This Week
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    Sphinx

    Sphinx

    Main repository for the Sphinx documentation builder

    Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license. It was originally created for the Python documentation, and it has excellent facilities for the documentation of software projects in a range of languages. Of course, this site is also created from reStructuredText sources using Sphinx! HTML (including Windows HTML Help), LaTeX (for printable PDF versions), ePub, Texinfo, manual pages, plain text. Semantic markup and automatic links for functions, classes, citations, glossary terms and similar pieces of information. Easy definition of a document tree, with automatic links to siblings, parents and children. General index as well as a language-specific module index. Automatic highlighting using the Pygments highlighter. Automatic testing of code snippets, the inclusion of docstrings from Python modules (API docs), and more.
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    TagSpaces

    TagSpaces

    TagSpaces is an offline, open source, document manager with tagging

    TagSpaces is a free, no vendor lock-in, open source application for organizing, annotating and managing local files with the help of tags. It features advanced note taking functionalities and some capabilities of to-do apps. The application is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android. We provide a web clipper extension for Firefox, Edge and Chrome for easy collecting of online content in the form of local files. File and folder management - TagSpaces provides a convenient user interface for browsing, viewing and man files and folders. The application supports two ways for tagging files. The default one embeds the tags directly in the name of the file, the other one uses a so called sidecar files for persisting the tags. The search functionality supports fuzzy functionality and can filter your locations for files and folders containing one or more tags.
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    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.
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    Downloads: 139 This Week
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    Zeal

    Zeal

    Offline documentation browser inspired by Dash

    Zeal is a simple offline documentation browser inspired by Dash. Get binary builds for Windows and Linux from the download page. After installing Zeal go to Tools ⟶ Docsets to browse and download docsets. You can limit search results to specific (or a set of specific) docsets. The docset filter and the search query are delimited by a colon character (:). If you prefer, you can start Zeal with a query from the command line. You can also search multiple docsets separating them with a comma. You can limit the search scope by using ':' to indicate the desired docsets.
    Downloads: 20 This Week
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    Papermerge

    Papermerge

    Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives

    Papermerge is an open source document management system (DMS) primarily designed for archiving and retrieving your digital documents. Instead of having piles of paper documents all over your desk, office or drawers - you can quickly scan them and configure your scanner to directly upload to Papermerge DMS. Store, organize and index scanned documents in PDF, JPEG and TIFF formats. Instantly find relevant information using full text, tags and metadata-based search. Papermerge is free and open-source software which means that transparency is the core value of our software development. Source code can be reviewed and improved by anyone from anywhere. Papermerge supports multiple users. Each user can be assigned different permissions to perform only a specific kind of action e.g. view only documents from a specific folder. OCR technology is vital part of Papermerge. It extracts text information from scanned documents, PDF, JPEG, TIFF files.
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    phpDocumentor

    phpDocumentor

    Documentation Generator for PHP

    phpDocumentor is an open-source documentation generator for PHP projects. It automatically generates documentation from PHP source code using comments and annotations, following the PHPDoc standard. The generated output includes detailed API documentation, class diagrams, and structured reports. It is widely used for maintaining comprehensive and professional documentation for PHP applications and libraries.
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    Natural Docs

    Natural Docs

    Multi-language source code documentation tool

    Natural Docs is an open-source documentation generator for multiple programming languages. You document your code in a natural syntax that reads like plain English. Natural Docs then scans your code and builds high-quality HTML documentation from it. SourceForge houses the source code and issue database for the old Perl version of Natural Docs, version 1.52. It is still available but no longer being updated. Please see NaturalDocs.org for the 2.x source code and issue database. However, you can still download the both the old and the new 2.x releases of Natural Docs here.
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    Downloads: 59 This Week
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    cloc (Count Lines Of Code) counts, and computes differences of, comment lines, blank lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages. cloc is now being developed at https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
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    Downloads: 58 This Week
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    Docsy

    Docsy

    Hugo theme for open source documentation

    Docsy is a Hugo theme developed by Google for creating structured, user-friendly technical documentation websites. It provides an elegant and consistent layout optimized for documentation sets, with built-in features such as automatic navigation, customizable site structure, and responsive design. The theme simplifies the process of building and maintaining documentation sites by offering flexible configuration options, modern styling, and seamless integration with Hugo’s static site generation system. Users can easily adapt Docsy for projects of any scale—whether personal developer docs or large enterprise documentation hubs. It supports the use of SCSS and PostCSS for advanced styling and includes compatibility with Hugo modules for streamlined project setup and modular development. The project is actively maintained and widely used by developers and open source communities to deliver high-quality, maintainable documentation websites.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    "Roberge's Used Robot (RUR) : a Python Learning Environment" is a Python implementation of a "robot environment" as introduced by R. Pattis in 1981. **It is obsolete.** See https://github.com/aroberge/rur-ple
    Downloads: 55 This Week
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    DOCX

    DOCX

    Generate .docx files with JS/TS with a nice declarative API

    Easily generate .docx files with JS/TS. Works for Node and on the Browser. You can mix and match whatever properties you want, or provide no properties. Setting the section type determines how the contents of the section will be placed relative to the previous section. You can specify additional properties to the section, by providing a properties attribute. Everything (text, images, graphs etc) in OpenXML is organized in paragraphs. To change the text alignment of a paragraph, add an AlignmentType option on the paragraph.for center, left, right or justified. When a paragraph is justified, you may want to not justify the contents of incomplete lines, which end in a soft line break. Paragraphs have .keepLines() and .keepNext() methods that allow restricting page breaks within and between paragraphs. To move to a new page, insert a page break.
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    Wiki.js

    Wiki.js

    A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js

    Works on virtually any platform and is compatible with either PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server or SQLite! Manage all aspects of your wiki using the extensive and intuitive admin area. Running on the blazing-fast Node.js engine, Wiki.js is built with performance in mind. Fully customize the appearance of your wiki, including a light and dark mode. You'll be ready to go within minutes! Step-by-step install guides are available for all platforms. Make your wiki public, completely private, or a mix of both. Whether it's on a tiny Raspberry Pi or on a high-performance VM in the cloud, Wiki.js intelligently makes use of the available resources. Built-in authentication with self-registration and password recovery capabilities. Use 3rd-party authentication services like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Discord, Slack and more. Add an extra layer of security using two-factor authentication for supported authentication modules.
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    riscv-isa-manual

    riscv-isa-manual

    RISC-V Instruction Set Manual

    This repository contains the source files for the official RISC‑V Instruction Set Manual, including the Privileged RISC‑V Manual in LaTeX and the Unprivileged Manual in AsciiDoc. It tracks formal ratified versions of the ISA maintained by RISC‑V International and hosts build workflows for releasing updated ISA documents.
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    Msc-generator

    Msc-generator

    Draws signalling charts, block diagrams and graphs from text input.

    NOTE! We have moved to https://gitlab.com/msc-generator/msc-generator All development happens there. Also, download new releases & submit issues there. A tool to draw various charts from textual descriptions. Currently, three types of charts are supported: Message Sequence Charts, generic Graphs, and Block Diagrams, with more to be added in the future. There is a command-line version for Linux and Mac (replacing mscgen), which now sports a GUI, as well. Msc-generator allows fine control over the appearance and has a rich feature set complete with detailed documentation. On Windows, you can embed the charts in a document or presentation and simply double-click it in Office to edit them. On Linux and the Mac, a command-line version is available, and a GUI, as well. A .deb package is available starting from Debian Bookworm (currently testing) and Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04) from the official repositories. For older releases see the Wiki. A Mac homebrew package is available.
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    Downloads: 37 This Week
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    Eclipse and Java Video Tutorials

    Video tutorials for learning Java OOP programming with Eclipse.

    Free video screencam tutorials for Eclipse and Java. Includes "Eclipse and Java for Total Beginners", "Using the Eclipse Workbench", "Introducing Persistence", and "Using the Debugger". Intended for beginning and intermediate users and programmer. You can view the Total Beginners tutorials on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv6UtFrA7VEu4PtzJaGHHSeZBi6mdJtwv. You can read descriptions and download all of the tutorials at http://eclipsetutorial.sourceforge.net.
    Downloads: 31 This Week
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    CatMDEdit - metadata editor
    CatMDEdit is a metadata editor tool for describing resources, mainly geographic information. Developed by IAAA (University of Zaragoza) and GeoSpatiumLab S.L., sponsored by IGN Spain. Technical details: Java, XML, multiplatform, multilingual.
    Downloads: 46 This Week
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    Hugo Book Theme

    Hugo Book Theme

    Hugo documentation theme as simple as plain book

    Hugo documentation theme as simple as a plain book. By default, the theme will render pages from the content/docs section as a menu in a tree structure. You can set title and weight in the front matter of pages to adjust the order and titles in the menu. There are a few configuration options that you can add to your config.toml file. A simple blog is supported in the section posts. A blog is not the primary use case of this theme, so it has only minimal features. The theme supports Hugo's multilingual mode, just follow the configuration guide there. You can also tweak search indexing configuration per language in i18n folder. There are layout partials available for you to easily override components of the theme in layouts/partials/. There are a few features implemented as plugable scss styles. Usually these are features that don't make it to the core but can still be useful.
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    troposphere

    troposphere

    Python library to create AWS CloudFormation descriptions

    The troposphere library allows for easier creation of the AWS CloudFormation JSON by writing Python code to describe the AWS resources. troposphere also includes some basic support for OpenStack resources via Heat. To facilitate catching CloudFormation or JSON errors early the library has property and type checking built into the classes.
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