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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Airpad – basic GUI text editor

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Airpad is a basic, generic graphical text editor. It has all of the functionalities one would expect.

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xed – lightweight extensible text editor

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

xed is Linux Mint’s compact text editor with tabs, syntax highlighting, remote file editing, search, printing and a flexible plugin system.

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Text Editing

Kate – powerful multi-document editor from KDE

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Kate is KDE’s multi-document editor with LSP support, projects, Git integration, multiple cursors, split views and a built-in terminal.

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OCR Tools

dpScreenOCR – software to recognize text on screen

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

dpScreenOCR is a program to recognize text on the screen. Powered by Tesseract, it supports more than 100 languages.

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Mousepad – lightweight text editor for Xfce

July 9, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Mousepad is Xfce’s lightweight text editor with tabs, search and replace, syntax highlighting, configurable display options and printing.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel PDF Fusion

July 7, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, Office, Software

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

July 3, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

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

June 26, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

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

May 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

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

May 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

RedPen is a proofreading tool to help writers or programmers who write technical documents or manuals

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Documentation

textlint – pluggable linting tool for text and Markdown

May 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

textlint is a pluggable natural-language linter with first-class Markdown support, configurable rules, fixers and custom output formatters

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Text Editing

proselint – linter for prose

May 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

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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Text Editing

Vale – software to help you write with a consistent tone and style

May 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

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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Text Editor

alex – catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing

May 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

alex helps you find gender favoring, polarizing, race related, or other unequal phrasing in text.

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PDF-Manipulation-Tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Fill & Sign

April 12, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, Software

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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PDF-Manipulation-Tools

LibreSign – simplify your digital signatures and document management

April 12, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

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

April 12, 2024 Steve Emms 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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Typesetting Tools

typst – markup-based typesetting system for the sciences

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

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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Typesetting Tools

Texinfo – typesetting syntax

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Texinfo is a typesetting syntax used for generating documentation in both on-line and printed form.

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Typesetting Tools

SILE – typesetting system

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

SILE is a typesetting system. Its job is to produce beautiful printed documents.

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