Open Source Python Text Processing Software for Linux

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux, BSD UNIX, Solaris, OpenIndiana, GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and spot colors, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.

Utilities for general- and special-purpose documentation. Includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.

Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can retrieve files for comparison from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories.

PDF-Shuffler is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a frontend for python-pyPdf.

The EpiDoc Collaborative is developing specifications and tools for standards-based, digital publication and interchange of scholarly and educational editions of documentary and literary texts like inscriptions and papyri. The link below will take you to the EpiDoc home page on this site.

Tomoe is a handwriting character recognition engine.

A Python port of the Apache Tika library that makes Tika available using the Tika REST Server. This makes Apache Tika available as a Python library, installable via Setuptools, Pip and easy to install. To use this library, you need to have Java 7+ installed on your system as tika-python starts up the Tika REST server in the background. To get this working in a disconnected environment, download a tika server file (both tika-server.jar and tika-server.jar.md5, which can be found here) and set the TIKA_SERVER_JAR environment variable to TIKA_SERVER_JAR="file:////tika-server.jar" which successfully tells python-tika to "download" this file and move it to /tmp/tika-server.jar and run as a background process. This is the only way to run python-tika without internet access. Without this set, the default is to check the tika version and pull latest every time from Apache.

DrPython is a highly customizable cross-platform ide to aid programming in Python. It was developed with teaching in mind, and has a clean, simple interface. It is written in Python, using wxPython as the gui.

Buzz is a fast graphical editor for XML files with special support for OPML. Using the OPML convergence tools it will edit about any outline and many forms of indented text, including Python. In fact, Buzz was written with Buzz! It is written in P

PyRTF is a pure python module for the efficient creation of RTF documents.

PyRtfLib is a python library that provides a parser and few translators like rtf to html and to simple text.

A python module that provides algorithms for advanced search - basically all you need to build a search engine.

The converter performs automatically the full process of converting the files of a C project into the equivalent C++ files. Classes are created, var and functions becomes attributes and methods and the changes are propagated into all files.

Pyana is a extension module that allows Python programs to interface with the Apache Software Foundation's Xalan XSLT transformation engine.

SilverCity is a lexing package, based on Scintilla, that can provide lexical analysis for over 20 programming and markup langauges. Scripting language bindings currently exist for Python.

xml2txt is a text formatter for XMl in the same way the FO is a PDF formatter. It uses python to convert an XML document to well-formatted text, wtih borders, indents, and tables.

Latex editor with document structure tree view and project handling. Latex output allows direct jump to warnings/errors. Projects folders gives support for figures/graphs. Editor component includes usual features like search/replace and syntax highlight.

PyWord is a powerful and flexible text editor written in Python. It aims to be similar to other, existing editors (including emacs), but has several unique features as well.

DocLite is a simple documentation authoring system, it produces multi-page HTML output (like this document) in a style similar to that found in the Linux HOTWTOs or other DocBook created documents.

KeyBindings is a plugin for gedit written in python. It lets you use (and eventually define) key combinations for usual actions such as switching tabs, closing tabs, etc.

This GUI lets the user navigate a wide selection of LaTeX structure and formatting tags that are used to write a document in LaTeX. It also has a raw text input box with a LaTeX preview for testing out LaTeX markup. Also, each markup has associated help text and is automatically selected to be ready to paste into the user's text editor. Also, this GUI lets the user choose which text editor and supporting programs are used to create their LaTeX document instead of forcing them into a particular interface of a pre-defined IDE.

Queequeg is an English grammar checker for non-native English speakers.

STF is a system of automatically generating documentation under control of a program or a script. It is frequently used to automatically generate test reports. STF is also used to clean up the output of a process and turn it into a nice looking report.

TeXML is an XML vocabulary for TeX. The processor transforms the TeXML markup into the TeX markup, escaping special and out-of-encoding characters. The intended audience is developers who automatically generate [La]TeX or ConTeXt files.

TransHelp is designed to assist in checking the consistency of Chinese-English translations in a translation project. It is written in php and python. It is especially useful in collaborative translation projects.