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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Vale – software to help you write with a consistent tone and style
Vale is open source software which enforces editorial style guidelines in documents. This syntax-aware linter for prose is built with speed and extensibility in mind.
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alex – catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing
alex helps you find gender favoring, polarizing, race related, or other unequal phrasing in text.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Fill & Sign
Adobe Fill & Sign lets users fill out PDF documents on a smartphones and tablet and share them directly with others. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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LibreSign – simplify your digital signatures and document management
LibreSign is a web application for electronic signatures. Its development began at the beginning of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic,
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JSignPdf – add digital signatures to PDF documents
JSignPdf is an application that adds digital signatures to PDF documents. The application uses the OpenPDF library for PDF manipulations. This is free and open source software. Features include: Visible signatures – image and/or description located visually in a PDF
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typst – markup-based typesetting system for the sciences
Typst is a markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use.
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Texinfo – typesetting syntax
Texinfo is a typesetting syntax used for generating documentation in both on-line and printed form.
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