Open Source Word Processors

Joe is world-famous Wordstar like text editor.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

MvOLE is program for reading Microsoft OLE Storage file (such as MS Word .doc or MS Excel .xls). You can get content of any OLE object in this file, even if it is damaged. Object's content may be translated from MS Office UNICODE to plain text.

The Text Trix editor is an open-source, cross-platform text editor with a mind for user-friendly file and text navigation. See our new GitHub home for the latest and greatest Text Trix development: https://github.com/the4thchild/texttrix

OOoPy is a library in Python for inspecting, creating or modifying OpenOffice.org documents. It uses the existing ElementTree XML library by Fredrik Lundh for manipulation of the OOo XML.

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.

Brahmi project aims at producing Java Input Methods and OpenType fonts for Indian languages. They are bundled with Brahmi - Word Processor which installs the fonts, Input Methods and font.properties files

The aim of this project is to provide exportfilters and extensions that enable the popular Star/OpenOffice Suite to be used as a single source publishing application. Initial target formats are PDF and HTML customized for Print, Web and Presentations.

This elisp package provides text based table creation and editing feature. Emacs can edit tables embedded inside a document, just like a modern WYSIWYG word processor. The latest version generates a table HTML source from a WYSIWYG table.