Open Source Linux Text Editors

OmegaT is a free and open source multiplatform Computer Assisted Translation tool with fuzzy matching, translation memory, keyword search, glossaries, and translation leveraging into updated projects.

LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite, and a successor to OpenOffice. Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity. LibreOffice is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) – development is open to new talent and new ideas, and our software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community. Your documents will look professional and clean, regardless of their purpose: a letter, a master thesis, a brochure, financial reports, marketing presentations, technical drawings and diagrams. LibreOffice makes your work look great while you focus on the content, thanks to its powerful styles system and structuring tools. LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) and Publisher. But LibreOffice goes much further with its native support for a modern and open standard (OpenDocument Format).

Arabeyes is a Meta project that is aimed at fully supporting the Arabic language in the Unix/Linux environment. It is designed to be a central location to standardize the Arabization process. Arabeyes relies on voluntary contributions.

Tools for localization: - Pootle: web based translation management system. - Virtaal: Computer Aided Translation (CAT) tool. - Translate Toolkit: QA, format conversion and support (PO, Java .properties, OpenOffice, Mozilla, XLIFF, TMX, TBX, CSV, Qt .ts).

FCKeditor is the previous version of CKEditor and has been discontinued after version 2. The new CKEditor is redesigned from the ground up, offering more WYSIWYG text editing features, enhanced security and better integration. Don’t force yourself with retro FCKeditor. Switch to the new, cool CKEditor at ckeditor.com

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.

JOrtho is a spell checker for Java. The library works with any JTextComponent from the swing framework. The dictionary is based on the free Wiktionary.org and applicable for multiple languages. You can select the spellchecking language via context menu.

Visual Math Editor New Version “ It now offers more than 730 LaTeX symbols and 210 AsciiMath symbols. It now works in all modern browsers without plugin. It now works with LaTeX, AsciiMath, MathML and HTML syntaxes. It improves the ergonomics of the user interface.” VisualMathEditor is a LaTeX, AsciiMath and MathML editor developed in Javascript and HTML. It operates independently on the web or locally. It has many features and menus that help the equation-entry and allow their posting and backup. Formulas : - math physics symbols - operation symbols - logical symbols - arrows symbols - relation symbols - bracket symbols - differential symbols - functions symbols - integral symbols - matrix symbols - sqrt & frac symbols - sub & sup symbols - sum & prod symbols - greek characters

net2ftp is a web based FTP client. Use it at http://www.net2ftp.com or install it on your own web server (PHP needed, MySQL optional). Features: browse, copy/move/delete files and directories recursively, upload, download, edit, view code with syntax highlighting, zip and unzip. net2ftp now also supports FTP over SSH.

Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats, video previewing, timings synchronization and subtitle translation.

RText is a customizable programmer's text editor written in Java. Some of its features include: syntax highlighting, editing multiple documents at once, printing and print preview, find/replace/find in files dialogs, undo/redo, and online help.

NoteCase is portable (Linux, Win32) hierarchical notes manager (aka outliner) coded in C++ using GTK+ toolkit. Project is inactive as of 2008/12/09, read more at: http://factoriel.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html

Transliterator between any Language files - Map Fonts, Create Encoding Scheme, Input Phonetic, Indian, Roman, Tamil, Hindi, English, French, German, Spanish or Any World Language Keyboard. Ex: [Phonetic Input]-[Any World Language Output] or ViceVersa.

Arabic word list for spell checkers (e.g. Aspell).

E2A is a program for any one have not arabic key board and want to write arabic

GNU FriBidi is the Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm. GNU FriBidi development has been moved to GitHub. See https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/

MediaGlyphs: an international language based on multimedia ideograms. It allows to read, think or type in your own language sentences written with the shared mediaglyphs: a common writing system for the world, Simple Unambiguous Neutral & Universal.

Medit is a text editor which supports many languages specially the arabic language

OCR c++ library. Include: contour recognition; vectorisation; matrix letter feature recognition; auto page segmentation and detect rotation; SS3 ASM core; XML base; web-based GUI; 99,6% printed Unicode text recognition; letter base up to 1200 letters.

This is going to be a free open source handwriting recognition for persian,and also arabic,but not a bad one now!!

ParaCAT is a free Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) software designed to help translators efficiently convert text between languages. Unlike automated translators such as Google Translator or Microsoft Translator, ParaCAT is not a translator itself. It is a tool for professional and hobbyist translators to streamline their workflow. Translation Memory (TM): Stores previously translated phrases and suggests matches for new content based on similarity, reducing repetitive work and ensuring consistency. Glossary: A customizable dictionary where frequently encountered words and their translations are stored. ParaCAT highlights glossary terms in the Target Editor when they appear in the source text, helping maintain accuracy. Each glossary can be maintained separately per project.

JPDF Tools is a GUI java program built on the JPDF Export library. Its main aim is to create pdf files by inserting texts, images or tables. Users can also merge PDF files, split PDF files, merge images into PDF files and soon convert from and to PDF files.