Open Source BSD Text Processing Software

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux, BSD UNIX, Solaris, OpenIndiana, GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and spot colors, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.

PDF Clown is a general-purpose Java and .NET library for manipulating PDF files through multiple abstraction layers, rigorously adhering to PDF 1.7 specification (ISO 32000-1). This project aims to provide a universal access to PDF files (creation, reading, editing, rendering...) through an accurate and elegant object-oriented API. * Features: http://pdfclown.org/overview/features/ * Overview: http://pdfclown.org/overview/architecture/ * Website: http://pdfclown.org/ * Blog: http://www.pdfclown.org/blog/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/PDFClown

Java version of the Chord (a.k.a. ChordPro) program for guitar player music sheet formatting. By the authors of the 1991 version of chord (version 3.5.1)

Early Access iText, a PDF generation library in Java

This project is now part of Gnome Subtitles (http://gnomesubtitles.org). SubLib was a library that eases the development of subtitling applications. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, conversion and synchronization.

XPontus , a free java based, Open Source XML Editor

AutoTrans will transpose a Song for you. Choose the old key and the new key, klick the start button and voilá! Your song is transposed!

A XHTML to PDF converter: with this library, you can transform simple XHTML pages to nice and printable PDF files. This project is based on the excellent webzine article "Pdfizer, a dumb HTML to PDF converter, in C#" written by Jonathan de Halleux.

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.

Automatically translate english/french/german text to german/french/english text and output speech in appropriate language. All Automagically with the power of the inter-webs.

Auvai is a Java API and Java Swing based application for Text to Speech conversion of Unicode Tamil. Future direction of this API and application is to support Text to Speech conversion for all "Indic" languages.

Chordeus is yet another Chord Pro to PDF converter that creates nice looking guitar chord sheets. You can create single sheets or a whole songbook using the command line tool or a simple wizard-like GUI.

xtopdf: Tools to convert other formats (x) to PDF; x as in math. - solve for x :-) Currently x == {.txt, .DBF}. Others to follow. Benefits: all those of PDF (better cross-platform viewing/printing, read-only, etc.)

FOray is an open-source XSL-FO publishing system that is suitable for converting XML content into PDF and other document formats. Although not yet fully conformant with the XSL-FO standard, it is very useful for many applications.

Gaupol is a subtitle editor for text based subtitle files (e.g. SubRip and MicroDVD).

KenyDraw is a very simple ASCii editor. Most programs written for this purpose are windows-only, which is why this project aims to support as many UNiX-like OSs as possible. The program is currently known to work on Linux and FreeBSD on xterm.

Turn a PC keyboard into a Musical Instrument! Keyano has the ability to turn your PC into a Musical Keyboard, or select Alphabet mode and it becomes fun and educational for the Kids. Type "A B C" and it says them out loud while it shows letters on screen

Mediawiki-PDF is a mediawiki extension to convert wiki articles into PDF Documents. The extension uses HTMLDOC to convert the wiki pages from plain HTML into PDF.

The PSP Bookreader allows you to read eBooks on your PlayStation Portable. OK, it isn't really a reader and doesn't even run on the PSP itself, but the name is catchier than "text to JPEG converter". Features preview, configurable output, easy to use GUI.

PowerMaker will be a fully developed Text/Word Processor and Presentation/Slide Manager for MacOS X. Name comes from two commercial Apps it tries to resemble and mix in look and feel as good as possible: PowerPoint by Microsoft & FrameMaker by Adobe

Shared Questionnaire System(SQS) is a full-functional Optical Mark Reader(OMR) form processing system implemented in Java-Swing, XSL-FO and AJAX with straightforward GUIs. It is aimed at developing social platform to share knowledge about questionnaire.

WikiPDF is a mediawiki extension based on Wiki2PDF that adds PDF/LaTeX features to mediawiki. Wiki2PDF is a python script to convert multiple articles of a mediawiki based wiki (pre-configured to use with www.wikipedia.org) to a single LaTeX or PDF file.

It's a tools generating some graphics interfaces for applications in Java language. It's to gain a lot of time while building some windows. The Swings classes are very difficult to use! (especially the Layouts) We describe the windows content in XML!

KBookReader is a Linux KDE twin-panel text files viewer specialized in reading e-books. It supports multiple bookmarks, custom fonts, encoding selection.

A utility to read/write from: pipes, sockets, standard handles, files, block devices, NT Native API objects, file mapping/section objects, comm ports, etc. Supports various text/data conversions, multiple inputs/outputs, and various IO types/options.