Open Source Python Text Processing Software

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A Python Scripting plugin for Notepad++. Complete easy script access to all of the editor's features (including absolutely everything in Scintilla). Configurable menus and toolbar options, assign shortcuts to scripts.

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.

Bundles Portable Python (with PyGTK) and Meld together in an easy to use installer. This allows you to not have to worry about setting up Python or PyGTK and you can keep Meld's Python separate from other Python installations on your machine. ** NOTE ** Meld 3.11 and later now have official installers, hence this project is no longer supported. You can download the new installer here: https://download.gnome.org/binaries/win32/meld/. You should uninstall the old 1.8 version before upgrading.

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.

Tomoe is a handwriting character recognition engine.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Gyrfalcon is a note / thought / task management system. Take your notes and other bits of information and: put the notes in hierarchical trees, tag, search, hyperlink, etc. Gyrfalcon is also designed with a clean interface that avoids modal interactions.

Alphabetizer lets anyone take a list of words or sentences and arranged them in alphabetical order easily. Alphabetizer is a tool that takes a list of words or phrases and arranged them in alphabetical order. This tool is useful for organizing information, creating glossaries, sorting names, or any task where the items in a list need to be in alphabetical order. Overall, Alphabetizer can save time and effort by quickly organizing information and making it easier to read and comprehend.

A Python-based template and view-controller framework derived from HTML::Mason. Supports the full featureset of Mason, allowing component-based web development with Python-embedded HTML, and includes many new concepts and features not found in Mason.

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.

Mamba is a extensible xml templates preprocessor wrote in Python. Using it, you can rapidly develop powerful applications ready to integrate with the internet. It can be used to work as a generic CGI program or for generate content.

Provides a set of Python scripts that allow client apps to automate Notepad++ using the excellent Python Script plugin and the Python SimpleXMLRPC modules. Demo apps in IronPython, C#, and now a "pure"-Python2.7 console app. No .Net required!

Word segmentation utility for Thai language written in C

Atox is a fully customizable Python library and command-line tool for converting plain text into XML.

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

A modular system for extracting and converting Python docstrings into useful structured formats like HTML, XML, and TeX. Project inactive. Development taken over by Docutils, http://docutils.sourceforge.net/.

JReferences is a tool to store and retrieve bibliographic references from a file or MySQL database. It reads BibTeXML, DocBook XML and RIS type references, and can output these and BibTex. A bibtex like alternative is also provided for DocBook XML docu

OpenReport is a fast, flexible and complete open source solution for rendering professionnal documents. It is a set of two embedded or standalone components; Tiny RML2PDF (a better alternative to XSL:FO) and the open report server.