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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

TkDiff – graphical front end to diff

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

TkDiff is a graphical front end to the diff program. It’s written in the Tcl programming language and under active development.

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Diffuse – merge tool written in Python

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Diffuse is a graphical tool for merging and comparing text files. Diffuse is implemented in Python and runs on platforms with PyGTK.

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KDiff3 – graphical text difference analyzer

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

KDiff3 is a graphical text difference analyzer for up to 3 input files, provides character-by-character analysis and a text merge tool.

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DiffPDF – compare two PDF files

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

DiffPDF is a GUI tool that’s used to compare two PDF files. This program is written in C++ and is free and open source.

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xxdiff – graphical file and directories comparator and merge tool

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

xxdiff is a free and open source graphical file and directories comparator and merge tool. Compare two files, three files, or two directories.

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Archive Manager

tar – create tar archives

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tar is console based software for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar format. Free and open source software.

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Archive Manager

patool – portable archive file manager

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, searched, repacked and compared with patool.

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Archive Manager

TUI Archiver – list / manage archives

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TUI Archiver is a terminal application to list / manage archives. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license.

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Archive Manager

tarnation – backup/restore utility based on tar

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tarnation is a simple, extensible tar backup/restore utility. It’s free and open source software written in Bash.

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Archive Manager

tarlz – massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tarlz is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor.

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KCron – graphical front end to the standard cron utility

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

KCron is KDE’s task scheduler. It is written in the C++ programming language and is published under an open source license.

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Command Schedulers

KTimer – execute programs after some time

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

KTimer is a little tool to execute programs. The software lets you to enter several tasks and to set a timer for each of them.

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Command Schedulers

FcronQ – Fcron GUI

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

FcronQ is an Fcron GUI for Linux. Fcron is an advanced periodic command scheduler. This is free and open source software.

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Command Schedulers

Zeit – Qt frontend to crontab and at

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Zeit is a Qt frontend to crontab and at. This is free and open source software written in the C++ programming language.

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Command Schedulers

GNOME Schedule – graphical user interface (GUI) tool that leverages the power of cron

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

GNOME Schedule is a graphical front end for the ‘crontab’ and ‘at’ tools. GNOME Schedule is free and open source software.

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OCR Tools

NormCap – OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

NormCap is an OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images. Free and open source software.

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OCR Tools

Frog – intuitive text extraction tool (OCR) for GNOME

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Frog is an intuitive text extraction tool for the GNOME desktop. Frog is free and open source software written in Python.

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OCR Tools

TextShot – Python tool for grabbing text via screenshot

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

TextShot offers the ability to take a screenshot and copy to the clipboard the text content of the screenshot. It’s free and open source.

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OCR Tools

TextSnatcher – perform OCR operations

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

TextSnatcher is a simple front-end that lets you copy text from images. It uses the Tesseract OCR 4.x for the character recognition.

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OCR Tools

Tesseract – optical character recognition engine

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Tesseract runs from the command line. It can only process an image of a single column and create text from it.

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