Open Source BSD Word Processors

Free alternative for Office productivity tools: Apache OpenOffice - formerly known as OpenOffice.org - is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications. OpenOffice is available in many languages, works on all common computers, stores data in ODF - the international open standard format - and is able to read and write files in other formats, included the format used by the most common office suite packages. OpenOffice is also able to export files in PDF format. OpenOffice has supported extensions, in a similar manner to Mozilla Firefox, making easy to add new functionality to an existing OpenOffice installation.

Virastyar is a free and open-source (FOSS) spell checker. It stands upon the shoulders of many free/libre/open-source (FLOSS) libraries developed for processing low-resource languages, especially Persian and RTL languages Publications: Kashefi, O., Nasri, M., & Kanani, K. (2010). Towards Automatic Persian Spell Checking. SCICT. Kashefi, O., Sharifi, M., & Minaie, B. (2013). A novel string distance metric for ranking Persian respelling suggestions. Natural Language Engineering, 19(2), 259-284. Rasooli, M. S., Kahefi, O., & Minaei-Bidgoli, B. (2011). Effect of adaptive spell checking in Persian. In NLP-KE Contributors: Omid Kashefi Azadeh Zamanifar Masoumeh Mashaiekhi Meisam Pourafzal Reza Refaei Mohammad Hedayati Kamiar Kanani Mehrdad Senobari Sina Iravanin Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli Mohsen Hoseinalizadeh Mitra Nasri Alireza Dehlaghi Fatemeh Ahmadi Neda PourMorteza

Joe is world-famous Wordstar like text editor.

A space to store classic OOo dependencies that cannot be easily redistributed in Apache OpenOffice's Source tree. Initially this was meant for copyleft tarballs only but it is also pretty handy to mirror other file dependencies.

Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex compounding or character encoding. Hunspell interfaces: Curses, Ispell compatible pipe interface, OpenOffice.org UNO module

libwps is a Microsoft Works file format import filter based on top of the librevenge (see https://sourceforge.net/p/libwpd/wiki/librevenge/ ). Currently, libwps can import all word processing Works formats since about 1995 with some success. It may also be able to import some basic database and spreadsheet files.

Library for reading Corel WordPerfect(tm) documents.

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 AbiWord word processor is a full-featured cross-platform word processor.

Ayaspell project aims to provide arabic dictionaries for free office applications like OpenOffice.org, Firefox: spellchecking (hunspell-ar), thesaurus (thesaurus-ar) and Morphological lexicon (Grammar-ar). Maintained by Taha Zerrouki.

Docx2txt is a Perl based command-line utility to convert (even corrupted) Microsoft docx documents to reasonably formatted text files, along with appropriate character conversions. Apart from Perl it also requires a command line unzipping program like unzip/7z/pkzipc/wzunzip.

AraWord is currently a part of ARASUITE!!!! Pleas, look for ARASUITE in Sourceforge!!!! https://sourceforge.net/projects/arasuite/ AraWord is a word processor that combines pictograms and text to help disabled people. More info: http://www.catedu.es/arasaac/index.php

DocBook to LaTeX Publishing transforms your SGML/XML DocBook documents to DVI, PostScript or PDF by translating them in pure LaTeX as a first process. MathML 2.0 markups are supported too. It started as a clone of DB2LaTeX.

Graphite is a project within SIL's scripts and software dev groups to provide cross-platform rendering for complex writing systems. This project has been deprecated. Graphite2, a new version of the Graphite engine, is available at: https://github.com/silnrsi/graphite with its own bug tracker.

Writer2LaTeX and Writer2xhtml is a collection of converters from OpenDocument Format (ODF) to LaTeX/BibTeX, HTML+MathML and EPUB. It is delivered as a standalone java library, as a command line application and as extensions for LibreOffice.

The goal of this project is to provide spell check, grammar check and hyphenation for Bulgarian language for Open Source products such as OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, TeX, aspell, ispell, hunspell etc.

ADAPRO is a free-to-use word processor geared towards individuals with a learning difficulty like dyslexia or a developmental disorder such as autism. Its adapted, seamless and configurable interface provides a simplified environment that can be relied, fostering the user's sustained attention. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose. Supports English, Spanish and Portuguese. If Java 6 or higher is already present on the computer, it does not even require installation. This project has been part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the PCT-MAC 2007-2013 programme.

Docear (pronounced dog-ear) is what we call an “academic literature suite”. It integrates everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature in a single application: a digital library, reference manager, PDF and file manager, note taking and mind mapping. And the best: Docear works seemlessly with many existing tools like Mendeley, Microsoft Word, and Foxit Reader. Docear is free and open source, based on Freeplane, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Technology and developed by scientists from around the world, among others from OvGU, and the University of California, Berkeley.

txt2html (Text to HTML converter) is a Perl program that converts plain text to HTML. It supports headings, lists, tables, simple character markup, and hyperlinking, and is highly customizable.

xindy is an index processor that can be used to generate book-like indexes for arbitrary document-preparation systems. This includes systems such as TeX and LaTeX, the roff-family, and SGML/XML-based systems (e.g., HTML).

The “Save as DAISY XML” add-in was created through an open source project with Microsoft, Sonata Software Ltd. and the Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium and can be downloaded on sourceforge.

OOoLilyPond (OLy) is an Extension for OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice. With OLy, you can include musical notation within text and presentation documents. The music expressions are entered as text codes and translated to images (png or eps) using LilyPond. The development has moved to GitHub (https://github.com/openlilylib/LO-ly). You will not find new releases here anymore.

AikSaurus is a GPL'd thesaurus library for C++. It returns many results, separated by part-of-speech information. The library itself has no particular GUI, and it can be used with any interface you'd like to create for it.

Voikko is a spell checking, grammar checking, morphological analysis and hyphenation system. Spell checkers are available for multiple languages, other features for Finnish only.

Open Source Thesaurus for Polish Language, useful in many office applications such as OpenOffice.org