Open Source ChromeOS Word Processors

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.

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

Library for reading Corel WordPerfect(tm) documents.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

AikSaurus is a GPL'd thesaurus library for C++. It returns many results, separated by part-of-speech information. The library itself has no particular GUI, and it can be used with any interface you'd like to create for it.

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.

The Writers Forge is a fiction authoring suite, an IDE for writers. The tool suite will provide integrated support for writing screenplays and prose, and developing plot and character. The backend will support many target formats, including XML and PDF.

TeXML is an XML vocabulary for TeX. The processor transforms the TeXML markup into the TeX markup, escaping special and out-of-encoding characters. The intended audience is developers who automatically generate [La]TeX or ConTeXt files.

Docear (pronounced dog-ear) is what we call an “academic literature suite”. It integrates everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature in a single application: a digital library, reference manager, PDF and file manager, note taking and mind mapping. And the best: Docear works seemlessly with many existing tools like Mendeley, Microsoft Word, and Foxit Reader. Docear is free and open source, based on Freeplane, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Technology and developed by scientists from around the world, among others from OvGU, and the University of California, Berkeley.

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.

txt2html (Text to HTML converter) is a Perl program that converts plain text to HTML. It supports headings, lists, tables, simple character markup, and hyperlinking, and is highly customizable.

Libronix tools is a collection of conversion filters for Openoffice.org to save in the native Libronix XML file formats. The first such tool is OOo2lbxsfl which is a filter to directly save Openoffice open document format into the Libronix Sermon Files.

odt2daisy is an OpenOffice.org Writer extension, enabling to export in DAISY XML, Full DAISY (xml+audio) and Audiobook format. DAISY is an NISO Z39.86 standard for blind, visual impaired, print-disabled, and learning-disabled people.

C-smile OOL is a scripting language with C++-like grammar. It has compiler, VM running bytecodes and C++ extendible runtime. Intended to run in standlone and embedded mode.

WP2LaTeX is a program for conversion WordPerfect MAC1.x, 2.x, 3.x and PC 4.x,5.x,6.x documents to LaTeX. Converted features are: Headers, Tables, Equations, Centered+ Right+ Left text, a lot of extended characters (greek, math,cyrilic) and of course a normal text. Alternative URL: http://78.108.103.11/~fojtik/wp2latex/wp2latex.htm and also http://ftsoft.wz.cz/wp2latex/wp2latex.htm

MvOLE is program for reading Microsoft OLE Storage file (such as MS Word .doc or MS Excel .xls). You can get content of any OLE object in this file, even if it is damaged. Object's content may be translated from MS Office UNICODE to plain text.

To create the ultimate editor LaTeX and its variants specifically targeting writting and science. Assist the user with table editor, speed-writing etc..

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

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