Open Source Python Text Processing Software - Page 3

The Contraction Converter is meant for people who write papers a lot and get deducted for having contractions. Run your file through this program and can't, etc. will be changed to the proper equivalent (ex. can not).

xtopdf: Tools to convert other formats (x) to PDF; x as in math. - solve for x :-) Currently x == {.txt, .DBF}. Others to follow. Benefits: all those of PDF (better cross-platform viewing/printing, read-only, etc.)

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.

DocScript is an approach to document preparation. It presents tools and utilities to edit and publish documents. The philosophy behind the DocScript project is to utilize the programming tools you're working with anyway in your daily work.

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/.

SCons is a make replacement providing a range of enhanced features such as automated dependency generation and built in compilation cache support. SCons rule sets are Python scripts so as well as the features it provides itself SCons allows you to use the full power of Python to control compilation. This is a SCons extension (tool) which enables usage of the dvipdfm program to convert dvi files to pdf.

EFM is a tool for fiction writers. It converts a plain text format into RTF. Someday it may do fancier things; see the homepage for details.

Eshed - ESsential Hebrew EDitor. Supports: bidrectional editing, niqud, multi buffers, multi views of same text, load & store in various encodings. Just Python, Using pygtk (Gtk & Pango inside).

FictionVocabulary is a tool for counting words in text files. It uses vocabularies with word sets e.g. 1000 most useful words etc. Counting occurs through vocabularies, so word list consists only of words which are not represent in vocabularies

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.

Gaupol is a subtitle editor for text based subtitle files (e.g. SubRip and MicroDVD).

This is a plugin for the famous text editor "Gedit" (Available for Linux, WIndows, ...?) When writing a text, GeditChangelog records every character typed. For instance, capture a video of your text creation process. It adds another dimension of text writing, the time dimension. It is very exciting to experiment with this type of writing. Since this is a plugin for gedit, any type of text can be tracked: Programming, Writing short or long text, etc. For a nice visualization, have a look at this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFhd7rpbM_M&hd=1 Consider donating to this project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/geditchangelog/donate

A module for python/pygame used for typesetting text to the screen. It provides specialized functions for scrolling text, pages of text, selectable text, and an on screen text editor.

A multiplatform visual implementation of the Unix utility grep

This script converts books from the open Gutenberg project base text format into a format easily readable by an iPod's notes feature. This project is written in Python and is so accessible across many Operating systems.

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

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.

Turn a PC keyboard into a Musical Instrument! Keyano has the ability to turn your PC into a Musical Keyboard, or select Alphabet mode and it becomes fun and educational for the Kids. Type "A B C" and it says them out loud while it shows letters on screen

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.

MahaKurawa.My.ID URL Extractor is Simple Tool to extract unique URL from any text content in instant. It's useful when you lazy enough to identify and copy-paste URL from your content one by one by yourself.

Manyaku is an integrated translation environment for comic books.

A text editor which converts wiki-like markup to XHTML and supports the FTP.

A framework for creating freeware Truetype fonts based on Metafont language. Glyph outlines and bitmaps are converted, using a number of utilities, into TTF and BDF format.

Multiplayer Notepad is a collaboration tool that allows multiple users to edit a single document with real-time synchronization between them.

NiMC provides an Instant Messaging server and client that runs on a custom protocol that is implemented in python. The project was written as a learning experiment by its author, to get experience with TCP/IP. Great example of how to do TCP/IP wrong