This article highlights OCR powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images. We only feature open source software here.
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Category: Documents
GNOME Text Editor – simple text editor that focuses on session management
Text Editor is a simple text editor that focuses on session management.
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CorePad – simple lightweight but powerful text editor
CorePad is a document editor for C Suite, a minimalistic application suite to cover all the basic day to day tasks.
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Pluma – text editor for the MATE desktop environment
Pluma is a small and lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the MATE environment. It started as a fork of Gedit.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe FrameMaker
FrameMaker is a document processor designed for writing and editing large or complex documents, including structured documents.
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Nota – browse, create, and edit text files
Nota is a very small text editor that lets you browse, create and edit text files. It’s designed for desktop and mobile computers.
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FeatherPad – lightweight Qt plain-text editor
FeatherPad is a lightweight Qt plain-text editor for Linux. It is independent of any desktop environment.
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gedit – GNOME text editor
gedit is a small and lightweight text editor for the GNOME environment. gedit supports most standard editing features.
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Airpad – basic GUI text editor
Airpad is a basic, generic graphical text editor. It has all of the functionalities one would expect.
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xed – small and lightweight text editor
xed is a small and lightweight text editor. xed supports most standard editing features, plus several not found in your typical text editor.
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Kate – multi document editor
The KDE Advanced Text Editor, or Kate, is a source code editor developed by the KDE free software community.
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dpScreenOCR – software to recognize text on screen
dpScreenOCR is a program to recognize text on the screen. Powered by Tesseract, it supports more than 100 languages.
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Mousepad – simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment
Mousepad is a simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel PDF Fusion
Corel PDF Fusion is billed as an all-in-one PDF creator that lets you assemble, edit and create PDFs.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Power BI
Power BI is software services, apps, and connectors that turn unrelated data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Digital Editions
Adobe Digital Editions is an e-book reader software program from Adobe. It lets you acquire, manage, and read e-books, digital newspapers, and other digital publications.
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write good – linter for English prose
write good is a linter for English prose for developers who can’t write well and want to learn to improve in other areas.
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RedPen – proofreading tool
RedPen is a proofreading tool to help writers or programmers who write technical documents or manuals
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textlint – pluggable linting tool for text and markdown
textlint is a pluggable linting tool for text and Markdown.
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proselint – linter for prose
proselint is a linter for English prose .A linter is computer software that, akin to a spell checker, scans through a file and detects issues.
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