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Files

csview – csv viewer

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

csview is a high performance csv viewer with cjk/emoji support.

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Files

batdoc – cat for Office documents and PDFs

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

batdoc dumps .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .pptx, and .pdf files to your terminal as markdown.

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Text Editor

sled – simple text editor

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

sled is a simple text editor with a terminal UI.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

v2 – rich-text editor

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

v2 is a local-first rich-text editor with versioning capabilities.

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6 Best Free and Open Source OCR Screen Capture Tools

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

This article highlights OCR powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images.

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Bookmark manager

Libro – terminal based book tracking tool

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Libro is a terminal-based tool to track your reading history, with your data stored locally in a SQLite database.

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Goose – database migration tool

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

Goose is a database migration tool. Both a CLI and a library. Manage your database schema by creating incremental SQL changes or Go functions.

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Text Editor

pnana – modern terminal text editor

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

pnana is a modern terminal text editor built with FTXUI, inspired by Nano, Micro, and Sublime Text.

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ebook reader

Lue – terminal eBook reader with text-to-speech

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Lue is a terminal eBook Reader with audiobook-quality Text-to-Speech.

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PDF

miro – PDF viewer

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

miro is a native pdf viewer for Linux (Wayland/X11), macOS, and Windows with configurable keybindings.

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Groupware

9 Best Free and Open Source Groupware Software

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Productivity, Roundup

Groupware software is designed to enable users to collaborate, regardless of location, via the internet or a corporate intranet.

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Typesetting Tools

5 Handy Free Linux Typesetting Systems

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

Typesetting systems let you generate high quality documentation including books with minimal effort.

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Files

hygg – minimalistic Vim-like TUI document reader

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

hygg is a minimalistic Vim-like TUI document reader.

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Database

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graph Databases

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. We recommend the best graph databases.

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OCR Tools

8 Best Free and Open Source OCR Systems

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

We pick out useful OCR systems.

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Text Editor

Great Open Source Collaborative Editing Tools

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

This article highlights our favourite free and open source tools to collaborate on documents in real time.

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Reference Management

Gorae – TUI librarian for PDFs and EPUBs

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Gorae is a terminal-first TUI librarian for PDFs and EPUBs—fast browsing, solid metadata, quick search, and mouse support.

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SQL

sqlfmt – SQL formatter

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

sqlfmt formats your dbt SQL files. It is similar in nature to black, gofmt, and rustfmt (but for SQL).

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Best Free and Open Source HTML Editors

7 Best Free and Open Source Linux HTML Editors

January 19, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

An HTML editor is computer software for creating web pages.

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PDF

dodo – fast and configurable PDF viewer

January 19, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

dodo is billed as a fast, keyboard-friendly PDF reader built for smooth reading, quick navigation, and deep customization.

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