The app-text category contains tools for working with human-language text files.
| a2ps | Any to PostScript filter |
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| active-dvi | A DVI previewer and a presenter for slides written in LaTeX |
| agrep | A tool for the fast searching of text allowing for errors in the search pattern |
| aiksaurus | A thesaurus lib, tool and database |
| an | Very fast anagram generator with dictionary lookup |
| ansifilter | Handles text files containing ANSI terminal escape codes |
| antiword | free MS Word reader |
| antixls | Print out an XLS file with minimal formatting, or extract the data into CSV |
| apvlv | Alf's PDF Viewer Like Vim |
| asa | ASA Carriage control conversion for ouput by Fortran programs |
| asciidoc | A plain text human readable/writable document format |
| aspell | A spell checker replacement for ispell |
| atril | Atril document viewer for MATE |
| bact | Boosting Algorithm for Classification of Trees |
| barcode | barcode generator |
| bdf2psf | Converter to generate console fonts from BDF source fonts |
| bibclean | BibTeX bibliography prettyprinter and syntax checker |
| bibletime | Qt Bible study application using the SWORD library |
| bibus | Bibliographic and reference management software, integrates with LO and MS Word |
| bibutils | Interconverts between various bibliography formats using common XML intermediate |
| binfind | binfind searches files for a byte sequence specified on the command line |
| blahtexml | TeX-to-MathML converter |
| blogc | A blog compiler |
| bogosort | A file sorting program which uses the bogosort algorithm |
| build-docbook-catalog | DocBook XML catalog auto-updater |
| c2ps | Generates a beautified ps document from a source file (c/c++) |
| calibre | Ebook management application |
| capyt | A python3 CLI utility to interface with cpy.pt paste service |
| catdoc | Converter for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and RTF files to text |
| cb2bib | Tool for extracting unformatted bibliographic references |
| cedilla | UTF-8 to postscript converter |
| chasen | Japanese Morphological Analysis System, ChaSen |
| cherrytree | A hierarchical note taking application |
| chm2pdf | A script that converts a CHM file into a single PDF file |
| clara | An OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program |
| cmark | CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C |
| cmigemo | Migemo library implementation in C |
| code2html | Converts source files to colored HTML output |
| convertlit | CLit converts MS ebook .lit files to .opf (xml+html+png+jpg) |
| convmv | convert filenames to utf8 or any other charset |
| cook | Embedded language which can be used as a macro preprocessor |
| coolreader | CoolReader - reader of eBook files (fb2,epub,htm,rtf,txt) |
| cpdf | A command line tool for manipulating PDF files |
| crf++ | Yet Another CRF toolkit for segmenting/labelling sequential data |
| crm114 | A powerful text processing tool, mainly used for spam filtering |
| csvfix | A stream editor for manipulating CSV files |
| cuneiform | An enterprise quality OCR engine by Cognitive Technologies |
| cutemarked | Qt5 markdown editor |
| cwtext | Text to Morse Code converter |
| dbacl | Digramic Bayesian text classifier |
| dblatex | Transform DocBook using TeX macros |
| ddir | A perl implementation of the tree(1) program |
| delta | Heuristically minimizes interesting files |
| dictd | Dictionary Client/Server for the DICT protocol |
| diction | Diction and style checkers for english and german texts |
| diffpdf | Program that textually or visually compares two PDF files |
| ding | Tk based dictionary (German-English) (incl. dictionary itself) |
| discount | A Markdown-to HTML translator written in C |
| djview | Portable DjVu viewer using Qt |
| djvu | DjVu viewers, encoders and utilities |
| djvusmooth | Graphical editor for DjVu documents |
| docbook-dsssl-stylesheets | DSSSL Stylesheets for DocBook |
| docbook-sgml | A helper package for sgml docbook |
| docbook-sgml-dtd | Docbook SGML DTD 4.5 |
| docbook-sgml-utils | Shell scripts to manage DocBook documents |
| docbook-xml-dtd | Docbook DTD for XML |
| docbook-xml-simple-dtd | Simplified Docbook DTD for XML |
| docbook-xsl-ns-stylesheets | XSL Stylesheets for Docbook |
| docbook-xsl-stylesheets | XSL Stylesheets for Docbook |
| docbook2X | Tools to convert docbook to man and info |
| doconce | A markdown-like langauge to generate docs in html, LaTeX, and many other formats |
| docx2txt | Convert MS Office docx files to plain text |
| dos2unix | Convert DOS or MAC text files to UNIX format or vice versa |
| duali | Arabic dictionary based on the DICT protocol |
| dvipng | Translate DVI files into PNG or GIF graphics |
| dvipsk | DVI-to-PostScript translator |
| dvisvgm | Converts DVI files to SVG |
| ebook-tools | Tools for accessing and converting various ebook file formats |
| editorconfig-core-c | EditorConfig core library written in C |
| enchant | Spellchecker wrapping library |
| enscript | Powerful text-to-postscript converter |
| epspdf | GUI and command-line converter for [e]ps and pdf |
| epstool | Creates or extracts preview images in EPS files, fixes bounding boxes |
| evince | Simple document viewer for GNOME |
| expander | Expander is a utility that acts as a filter for text editors |
| extract_url | extracts URLs from correctly-encoded MIME email messages or plain text |
| fbless | Python-based console fb2 reader with less-like interface |
| fbpdf | framebuffer pdf and djvu viewer |
| fbreader | E-Book Reader. Supports many e-book formats |
| fdftk | Acrobat FDF Toolkit |
| fictionup | A command-line markdown to fb2 convertor |
| flpsed | Pseudo PostScript editor |
| freepwing | FreePWING is a free JIS X 4081 (subset of EPWING V1) formatter |
| getxbook | Download books from google, amazon, barnes and noble |
| ghostscript-gpl | Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF |
| glark | File searcher similar to grep but with fancy output |
| glosung | Watch word program for the GNOME2 desktop (watch word (german): losung) |
| gnome-doc-utils | A collection of documentation utilities for the Gnome project |
| gnopaster | A submitter for gnopaste, a nopaste service like http://nopaste.info |
| gocr | An OCR (Optical Character Recognition) reader |
| goldendict | Feature-rich dictionary lookup program |
| grip | Preview GitHub Markdown files like Readme locally before committing them |
| groonga | An Embeddable Fulltext Search Engine |
| groonga-normalizer-mysql | Groonga plugin that provides MySQL compatible normalizers |
| grutatxt | A converter from plain text to HTML and other markup languages |
| gspell | Spell check library for GTK+ applications |
| gtkspell | Spell checking widget for GTK |
| gtranslator | An enhanced gettext po file editor for GNOME |
| gv | Viewer for PostScript and PDF documents using Ghostscript |
| hd2u | Dos2Unix like text file converter |
| highlight | Converts source code to formatted text (HTML, LaTeX, etc.) with syntax highlight |
| hnb | A program to organize many kinds of data in one place |
| htag | random signature maker |
| html-xml-utils | A number of simple utilities for manipulating HTML and XML files |
| html2text | A HTML to text converter |
| html401 | DTDs for the HyperText Markup Language 4.01 |
| htmlc | HTML template files expander |
| htmldoc | Convert HTML pages into a PDF document |
| htmlinc | HTML Include System by Ulli Meybohm |
| htmlmin | A configurable HTML Minifier with safety features |
| htmlrecode | Recodes HTML file using a new character set |
| htmltidy | Tidy the layout and correct errors in HTML and XML documents |
| htp | An HTML preprocessor |
| hunspell | Hunspell spell checker - an improved replacement for myspell in OOo |
| hyperestraier | a full-text search system for communities |
| info2html | Converts GNU .info files to HTML |
| iso-codes | ISO language, territory, currency, script codes and their translations |
| itex2mml | A LaTeX into XHTML/MathML converter |
| jabref | Java GUI for managing BibTeX and other bibliographies |
| jabref-bin | Java GUI manages bibliographies in a BibTeX database |
| jadetex | TeX macros used by Jade TeX output |
| jist | A ruby gem to publish a gist |
| jo | JSON output from a shell |
| jpdftweak | Swiss Army Knife for PDF files |
| kbibtex | BibTeX editor to edit bibliographies used with LaTeX |
| kchmviewer | Feature rich chm file viewer, based on Qt |
| keepnote | A note taking application |
| krop | A tool to crop PDF files |
| landslide | Generates a slideshow using the slides that power the html5-slides presentation |
| languagetool | A proof-reading tool for many languages |
| lcdf-typetools | Font utilities for eg manipulating OTF |
| lesspipe | a preprocessor for less |
| letterize | Generate English-plausible alphabetic mnemonics for a phone number |
| libabw | Library parsing abiword documents |
| libebook | Library parsing various ebook formats |
| libepubgen | EPUB generator for librevenge |
| libetonyek | Library parsing Apple Keynote presentations |
| libexttextcat | Library implementing N-gram-based text categorization |
| libgepub | GObject based library for handling and rendering epub documents |
| libgxps | Library for handling and rendering XPS documents |
| liblangtag | An interface library to access tags for identifying languages |
| libmspub | Library parsing Microsoft Publisher documents |
| libmwaw | Library parsing many pre-OSX MAC text formats |
| libnumbertext | Number to number name and money text conversion libraries |
| libodfgen | Library to generate ODF documents from libwpd and libwpg |
| libpaper | Library for handling paper characteristics |
| libqxp | Library parsing QuarkXpress documents |
| libspectre | A library for rendering Postscript documents |
| libstaroffice | Import filter for old StarOffice documents |
| libwpd | WordPerfect Document import/export library |
| libwpg | C++ library to read and parse graphics in WPG |
| libwps | Microsoft Works file word processor format import filter library |
| libxmlpatch | A set of tools to create and apply patch to XML files using XPath |
| linuxdoc-tools | A toolset for processing LinuxDoc DTD SGML files |
| llpp | graphical PDF viewer which aims to superficially resemble less(1) |
| logmerge | Small and powerful script to merge two or more logfiles |
| lout | High-level language for document formatting |
| lv | Powerful Multilingual File Viewer |
| mandoc | Suite of tools compiling mdoc and man |
| manpager | Enable colorization of man pages |
| master-pdf-editor | A complete solution for viewing and editing PDF files |
| mathtex | Lets you easily embed LaTeX math in your own html pages, blogs, wikis, etc |
| mecab | Yet Another Part-of-Speech and Morphological Analyzer |
| mftrace | Traces TeX fonts to PFA or PFB fonts (formerly pktrace) |
| mht-rip | convert mht/mhtml files to something usable |
| mpage | Many to one page printing utility |
| multitail | Tail with multiple windows |
| mupdf | a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C |
| mythes | A simple thesaurus for Libreoffice |
| namazu | Namazu is a full-text search engine |
| nfoview | simple viewer for NFO files, which are ASCII art in the CP437 codepage |
| o3read | Converts OpenOffice formats to text or HTML |
| ocrad | GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program |
| odt2txt | A simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text |
| openjade | Jade is an implementation of DSSSL for formatting SGML and XML documents |
| openlp | Free church presentation software |
| opensp | A free, object-oriented toolkit for SGML parsing and entity management |
| ots | Open source Text Summarizer, as used in newer releases of abiword and kword |
| pandoc | Conversion between markup formats |
| paperwork | a personal document manager for scanned documents (and PDFs) |
| paperwork-backend | Backend part of Paperwork (Python API, no UI) |
| paps | Unicode-aware text to PostScript converter |
| par | a paragraph reformatter, vaguely similar to fmt, but better |
| passivetex | A namespace-aware XML parser written in Tex |
| pastebinit | A software that lets you send anything you want directly to a pastebin |
| pdf2djvu | A tool to create DjVu files from PDF files |
| pdf2html | Converts pdf files to html files |
| pdf2htmlEX | A precise PDF to HTML converter (dilfridge fork) |
| pdf2oo | Converts pdf files to odf |
| pdfgrep | A tool similar to grep which searches text in PDFs |
| pdfjam | pdfnup, pdfjoin and pdf90 |
| pdfminer | Python tool for extracting information from PDF documents |
| pdfsandwich | generator of sandwich OCR pdf files |
| pdfshuffler | GUI app that can merge or split pdfs and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages |
| pdftk | gcj-free version of pdftk written in Java |
| peg-markdown | Implementation of markdown in C, using a PEG grammar |
| pelican | A tool to generate a static blog, with restructured text or markdown input files |
| pep | General purpose filter and file cleaning program |
| pinfo | Hypertext info and man viewer based on (n)curses |
| po4a | Tools to ease the translation of documentation |
| podofo | PoDoFo is a C++ library to work with the PDF file format |
| poppler | PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base |
| poppler-data | Data files for poppler to support uncommon encodings without xpdfrc |
| ps2eps | Generate Encapsulated Postscript Format files from one-page Postscript documents |
| ps2pkm | Tool that converts a PostScript type1 font into a corresponding TeX PK font |
| psiconv | An interpreter for Psion 5(MX) file formats |
| pspdftool | Tool for prepress preparation of PDF and PostScript documents |
| pspresent | A tool to display full-screen PostScript presentations |
| pstotext | Extract ASCII text from a PostScript or PDF file |
| psutils | PostScript Utilities |
| pybookreader | A book reader for .fb2 .html and plain text (possibly gzipped) |
| pylize | Python HTML Slideshow Generator using HTML and CSS |
| pytextile | A Python port of Textile, A humane web text generator |
| q-text-as-data | A CLI tool that allows direct execution of SQL-like queries on text |
| qpdf | Command-line tool for structural, content-preserving transformation of PDF files |
| qpdfview | A tabbed document viewer |
| queequeg | A checker for English grammar, for people who are not native English |
| rarian | A documentation metadata library |
| recode | Convert files between various character sets |
| reed | This is a text pager (text file viewer), used to display etexts |
| refbase | Web-based solution for managing scientific literature, references and citations |
| referencer | Application to organise documents or references, and to generate BibTeX files |
| restview | reStructuredText viewer |
| rfcutil | return all related RFCs based upon a number or a search string |
| rman | PolyGlotMan man page translator AKA RosettaMan |
| rnv | A lightweight Relax NG Compact Syntax validator |
| robodoc | Automating Software Documentation |
| ronn | Converts simple, human readable textfiles to roff for terminal display, and HTML |
| rpl | Intelligent recursive search/replace utility |
| rtf2html | RTF to HTML converter |
| sablotron | An XSLT Parser in C++ |
| sary | Sary: suffix array library and tools |
| scdoc | Standalone tool for generating man pages with a simple syntax |
| scrollkeeper | Dummy scrollkeeper for testing rarian |
| scrollkeeper-dtd | DTD from the Scrollkeeper package |
| sdcv | Console version of Stardict program |
| sgml-common | Base ISO character entities and utilities for SGML |
| sgmltools-lite | Python interface to SGML software in a DocBook/OpenJade env |
| sgrep | Use structural criteria to grep and index text, SGML, XML and HTML and filter |
| sigil | Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor for ePub format |
| silvercity | A lexical analyser for many languages |
| sloccount | Tools for counting Source Lines of Code (SLOC) for a large number of languages |
| spellutils | spellutils includes 'newsbody' (useful for spellchecking in mails, etc.) |
| stardict | A international dictionary supporting fuzzy and glob style matching |
| sword | Library for Bible reading software |
| sword-modules | A collection of modules for the SWORD project |
| t1utils | Type 1 Font utilities |
| tabler | A utility to create text art tables from delimited input |
| talkfilters | Convert ordinary English text into text that mimics a stereotyped dialect |
| teckit | Text Encoding Conversion toolkit |
| teseq | A tool for analyzing files that contain control characters and sequences |
| tesseract | An OCR Engine, orginally developed at HP, now open source. |
| texi2html | Perl script that converts Texinfo to HTML |
| texlive | A complete TeX distribution |
| texlive | A complete TeX distribution |
| texlive-core | A complete TeX distribution |
| tidy-html5 | Tidy the layout and correct errors in HTML, HTML5 and XML documents |
| tkinfo | Info Browser in TK |
| tkman | TkMan man and info page browser |
| tofrodos | Utility that converts ASCII files between the MSDOS and the Unix format |
| tokyodystopia | A fulltext search engine for Tokyo Cabinet |
| trang | Multi-format schema converter based on RELAX NG |
| tree | Lists directories recursively, and produces an indented listing of files |
| ttf2pk2 | Freetype 2 based TrueType font to TeX's PK format converter |
| ttf2pt1 | True Type Font to Postscript Type 1 Converter |
| txt2man | Scripts to convert regular ASCII text to man pages |
| txt2pdbdoc | Text/HTML to Doc file converter for the Palm Pilot |
| txt2tags | Generate marked up documents (HTML, etc.)from a plain text file with markup |
| u2ps | A text to PostScript converter like a2ps, but supports UTF-8 |
| unac | Library and command-line tool for removing accents from characters |
| unpaper | Post-processor for scanned and photocopied book pages |
| unrtf | Converts RTF files to various formats |
| uudeview | uu, xx, base64, binhex decoder |
| vilistextum | Html to ascii converter specifically programmed to handle incorrect html |
| vlna | Add nonbreakable spaces after some prepositions in Czech texts |
| wdiff | Create a diff disregarding formatting |
| webgen | A template-based static website generator |
| wgetpaste | Command-line interface to various pastebins |
| wiki2beamer | Tool to produce LaTeX Beamer code from wiki-like input |
| winefish | LaTeX editor based on Bluefish |
| wklej | A wklej.org submitter |
| writerperfect | Various formats to Open document format converter |
| wscr | A Lightweight and Fast Anagram Solver |
| wv | Tool for conversion of MSWord doc and rtf files to something readable |
| wv2 | Excellent MS Word filter lib, used in most Office suites |
| xapian-omega | An application built on Xapian, consisting of indexers and a CGI search frontend |
| xchm | Utility for viewing Compiled HTML Help (CHM) files |
| xdvik | DVI previewer for X Window System |
| xfbib | a lightweight BibTeX editor |
| xhtml1 | DTDs for the eXtensible HyperText Markup Language 1.0 |
| xindy | A Flexible Indexing System |
| xiphos | A bible study frontend for Sword (formerly known as GnomeSword) |
| xlhtml | Convert MS Excel and Powerpoint files to HTML |
| xlsx2csv | Convert MS Office xlsx files to CSV |
| XML-Schema-learner | Algorithmic inferencing of XML schema definitions and DTDs |
| xml2 | These tools are used to convert XML and HTML to and from a line-oriented format |
| xml2doc | Tool to convert simple XML to a variety of formats (pdf, html, txt, manpage) |
| xmldiff | A tool that figures out the differences between two similar XML files |
| xmlformat | Reformat XML documents to your custom style |
| xmlstarlet | A set of tools to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents |
| xmlto | script for converting XML and DocBook documents to a variety of output formats |
| xournal | An application for notetaking, sketching, and keeping a journal using a stylus |
| yelp-tools | Collection of tools for building and converting documentation |
| yodl | Your Own Document Language: a pre-document language and tools to process it |
| zathura | A highly customizable and functional document viewer |
| zathura-cb | Comic book plug-in for zathura with 7zip, rar, tar and zip support |
| zathura-djvu | DjVu plug-in for zathura |
| zathura-meta | Meta package for app-text/zathura plugins |
| zathura-pdf-mupdf | PDF plug-in for zathura |
| zathura-pdf-poppler | PDF plug-in for zathura |
| zathura-ps | PostScript plug-in for zathura |