Open Source Text Processing Software

RText is a customizable programmer's text editor written in Java. Some of its features include: syntax highlighting, editing multiple documents at once, printing and print preview, find/replace/find in files dialogs, undo/redo, and online help.

NoteCase is portable (Linux, Win32) hierarchical notes manager (aka outliner) coded in C++ using GTK+ toolkit. Project is inactive as of 2008/12/09, read more at: http://factoriel.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html

LaTeX-Mk is a collection of makefile fragments for managing small to large LaTeX based documentation projects. The idea is that especially large documents, there may be many many steps required to typeset the document (export modified figures to postscr

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

xMarkup is a text transformation utility for batch-processing of a set of ANSI/UTF-8 text files. All Win-32 and POSIX/UNIX platforms.

NaNoWriTool is a text editor with features specifically geared towards NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month. It contains a live word counter, daily word count target, a timer for word wars and automatic backup feature.

An alternative to the string library for C and C++ which is more functional and does not have buffer overflow problems.

Java library that emulates the Perl 5 "transliterate" operation on a given string. Most Perl 5 features are supported, including all the standard modifiers and most Perl escape sequences. Patterns are compiled for speed, and runtime performance is fast.

The best cyrillic text viewer and code page converter.

Fast C++ template engine (C++ analog of PERL HTML::Template). CTPP completely separates project source and data representation. Home page: http://reki.ru/products/ctpp CTPP2: http://reki.ru/products/ctpp2/ New API and arcitecture.

Doco is a simple but feature rich and powerful markup language for converting text documents into highly-presentable and navigable web content.

DupRem is a simple easy-to-use cross-platform application to remove duplicate and empty lines from any text file. It is also possible to keep or ignore case sensitive. Works also from command-line interface, e.g. "java -jar duprem.jar -r input_file.txt >output_file.txt", to create output file, or "java -jar duprem.jar -r input_file.txt >>output_file.txt", to create or append to output file. DupRem is portable, does not need installation and is developed in Java, so needs the Java Virtual Machine (version 6 or higher) that, in the case, is very easy to download and install.

The official client for Everything2.com. Portable, lightweight, and tasty.

FileCut is a simple easy-to-use cross-platform application to cut to a given line and then join any text file. It is also possible to join in normal or reverse order. Works also from command-line interface, e.g. 'java -jar filecut.jar -c file.txt . 10', to cut 'file.txt' at line 10, and 'java -jar filecut.jar -j . >file.txt', to join files in the current directory in 'file.txt'. FileCut is portable, does not need installation and is developed in Java, so needs the Java Virtual Machine (version 6 or higher) that, in the case, is very easy to download and install.

This tool is designed to help break a project down into smaller and smaller chunks, allowing you to go into fine detail without losing sight of the big picture. Particularly good for certain types of dyslexia.

JNotePad is a very flexible text editor. With lots of modules, cou can create your own user-friendly editor. By choosing only the modules YOU need, you get a very productive editor.

A framework that allows textprocessing to be integrated into any Java application in a generic manner. It represents an approbiate abstraction of the necessary elements and offers a generic interface to the application that needs a textprocessing service.

translit is a J2EE web application written in Java to execute convertion between different encodings.

The next version of Kneemail will be released through the Google open source project hosting service. The SourceForge project is being closed. We will update this info once the next release has been made public. kneemail@kneemailcentral.com

A Java swing .po file editor that displays comments, ids, and translations in a JTable. Multiple files can be compared and IDs can be looked up to see what files will be affected by the change. (changed from po editor to avoid confusion with poedit)

Pyana is a extension module that allows Python programs to interface with the Apache Software Foundation's Xalan XSLT transformation engine.

A Ruby file parser/interpreter/preprocessor that comments lines of code based on conditions at the time the file is required. Very handy to implement debugging logs and code that has to be commented (not just dynamically switched off).

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.

SubLin is a simple easy-to-use cross-platform application to subtract lines of any text file from another. It is also possible to keep or ignore case sensitive. Works also from command-line interface, e.g. "java -jar sublin.jar -s file1.txt file2.txt >new_file1.txt", to create output file "new_file1.txt", or "java -jar sublin.jar -s file1.txt file2.txt >>new_file1.txt", to create or append to output file "new_file1.txt". SubLin is portable, does not need installation and is developed in Java, so needs the Java Virtual Machine (version 6 or higher) that, in the case, is very easy to download and install.