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.

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.

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.

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

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.

SE|PY is an ActionScript editor written in python, wxPython and using scintilla for text highlight, code collapsing. some features: snippets panel, functions panel and much more. Contain also Flush

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

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

Project Homepage is moved to http://cjkpython.i18n.org/

Wyneken is a content-oriented text processor that makes your life as a student easier by allowing you to create and manage digital notebooks. Wyneken also allows you to create PDF presentations, letters, articles, and reports. In 2015, Wyneken may or may not work with the latest Linux distributions, but you can use it for building pdfs by pulling our docker repo indicated in the homepage field of this site. The docker site has the information on how to invoke the container, which is based on Fedora 23 and has a texlive stack.

Word segmentation utility for Thai language written in C

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.

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

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.

The Python scripts for the conversion from the Chinese Pinyin transcription(ISO 7098) to International Phonetic Alphabet(IPA), comprised of a core module for developers and a flexible GUI application for the common end-users on Modern Chinese phonetics.

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.

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.

pyfiglet is a full port of the FIGlet specification (http://www.figlet.org/) into pure python. It takes ASCII text and renders it in ASCII art fonts. It can be used on the commandline or as an Object Oriented driver library in your own programs.

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

Fidus Writer is an online collaborative editor especially made for academics who need to use citations and/or formulas. The editor focuses on the content rather than the layout, so that with the same text, you can later on publish it in multiple ways: On a website, as a printed book, or as an ebook. In each case, you can choose from a number of layouts that are adequate for the medium of choice.