FREE SOFTWARE DIRECTORY

Word processing

Projects within Word processing

• AFT

  - Document preparation system

• AbiWord

  - Word processor from the AbiSource Project desktop suite

• Aspell

  - Spell checker

• Compare

  - Faster implementation of 'cmp'

• Diffstat

  - Displays a histogram of changes to a file

• Diffutils

  - Finds differences between and among files

• File

  - File classification command

• Flex

  - Generates text-scanning programs

• Flyspell.el

  - On the fly spell checker

• HSpell

  - Hebrew spell-checker and morphology engine

• Hashed Text Utilities

  - Reimplementations of comm, diff, uniq, and cksum

• KDiff3

  - Compares different text files

• KnowIt

  - a simple tool for managing rich-text notes in a tree-like hierarchy.

• Link Grammar

  - Syntactic parser for the English language

• LyX

  - Document processor.

• Mad Builder

  - Merges PDF files

• Pspell

  - Generic interface for spell checker libraries

• Ptx

  - Index generator

• Ruby LinkParser

  - A high-level interface to the CMU Link Grammar.

• Textutils

  - Text utilities

• WBOSS

  - Web-based spell checker

• WordNet

  - Lexical database for the English langugae

• compare

  - Text analysis and comparison tool

• diction

  - Checks text for readability and bad usage

• fldiff

  - Graphical diff program

• gawk

  - String manipulation language

• glark

  - 'grep'-like searching for complex regular expressions

• imediff2

  - Merges two files interactively via a fullscreen text mode interface

• ispell

  - Spell checker

• msort

  - Sophisticated and flexible sort program

• pdftk

  - Toolkit for working with PDF documents

• spell

  - Spell checker

• tkdiff

  - Graphical diff and merge tool

• wdiff

  - Front end to GNU 'diff'

• word2x

  - Word to HTML, LaTex, and ASCII converter