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View 14 business solutionsBrowse free open source Documentation software and projects for Windows and Mac below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Documentation software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Grafana: The open and composable observability platformGrafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
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Joplin
Open source note taking and to-do app with synchronization
Joplin is a free and open source note-taking and to-do application that can handle a large number of notes in Markdown format, organize them into notebooks and synchronize them with various cloud services. All notes can also be copied, tagged, searched and modified directly from the app or through your own text editor. Notes that are exported from Evernote can be imported into Joplin, be it formatted content, resources, complete metadata or plain Markdown files. When notes are synchronized with cloud services, notebooks, tags and other metadata can easily be moved, inspected or backed up as plain text files. Supported cloud services include Nextcloud, OneDrive, Dropbox and WebDAV. Joplin is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android, with three types: desktop, mobile and terminal. All of them have similar user interfaces and can be synchronized with each other. -
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TestLink
Test & requirements management
TestLink is a web based Test Management tool. The application provides Test specification, Test plans and execution, Reporting, Requirements specification and collaborate with well-known bug trackers. Repository: https://github.com/TestLinkOpenSourceTRMS -
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TagSpaces
TagSpaces is an offline, open source, document manager with tagging
TagSpaces is a free, no vendor lock-in, open source application for organizing, annotating and managing local files with the help of tags. It features advanced note taking functionalities and some capabilities of to-do apps. The application is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android. We provide a web clipper extension for Firefox, Edge and Chrome for easy collecting of online content in the form of local files. File and folder management - TagSpaces provides a convenient user interface for browsing, viewing and man files and folders. The application supports two ways for tagging files. The default one embeds the tags directly in the name of the file, the other one uses a so called sidecar files for persisting the tags. The search functionality supports fuzzy functionality and can filter your locations for files and folders containing one or more tags. -
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Papermerge
Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives
Papermerge is an open source document management system (DMS) primarily designed for archiving and retrieving your digital documents. Instead of having piles of paper documents all over your desk, office or drawers - you can quickly scan them and configure your scanner to directly upload to Papermerge DMS. Store, organize and index scanned documents in PDF, JPEG and TIFF formats. Instantly find relevant information using full text, tags and metadata-based search. Papermerge is free and open-source software which means that transparency is the core value of our software development. Source code can be reviewed and improved by anyone from anywhere. Papermerge supports multiple users. Each user can be assigned different permissions to perform only a specific kind of action e.g. view only documents from a specific folder. OCR technology is vital part of Papermerge. It extracts text information from scanned documents, PDF, JPEG, TIFF files. -
Pest Control Management SoftwareBuilt for the pest control industry, but also works great for Mosquito Control, Bin Cleaning, Window Washing, Solar Panel Cleaning, and other Home Service Businesses in need of an easy-to-use software that helps you simplify routing, scheduling, communications, payment processing, truck tracking, time tracking, and reporting.
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Msc-generator
Draws signalling charts, block diagrams and graphs from text input.
NOTE! We have moved to https://gitlab.com/msc-generator/msc-generator All development happens there. Also, download new releases & submit issues there. A tool to draw various charts from textual descriptions. Currently, three types of charts are supported: Message Sequence Charts, generic Graphs, and Block Diagrams, with more to be added in the future. There is a command-line version for Linux and Mac (replacing mscgen), which now sports a GUI, as well. Msc-generator allows fine control over the appearance and has a rich feature set complete with detailed documentation. On Windows, you can embed the charts in a document or presentation and simply double-click it in Office to edit them. On Linux and the Mac, a command-line version is available, and a GUI, as well. A .deb package is available starting from Debian Bookworm (currently testing) and Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04) from the official repositories. For older releases see the Wiki. A Mac homebrew package is available. -
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mm-wiki
Lightweight enterprise knowledge sharing and team collaboration
MM-Wiki is a lightweight enterprise knowledge sharing and team collaboration software that can be used to quickly build an enterprise Wiki and team knowledge sharing platform. Easy to deploy and easy to use, it helps teams build a collaborative environment for information sharing and document management. It is easy to deploy, written based on golang, and you only need to download and execute the binary files under the platform. Quick Installer, provides a convenient installation interface program without any manual operation. An independent space. A space is a collection of documents, usually a company department or team. The documents in the space are independent of each other. Spaces can have space access levels set on demand. Perfect system authority management, the system can customize roles and grant different permissions for different roles. Integrated unified login, the system supports user authentication through external systems. -
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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).
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Foswiki is an Enterprise wiki, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge base or document management system. Users can create wiki applications using the Topic Markup Language, and developers can extend its functionality with plugins. Foswiki stands for "Free and Open Source" wiki to emphasize its commitment to Open Source software.
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Boost Note
Boost Note is a document driven project management tool
Boost Note is a document-driven project management tool that maximizes remote DevOps team velocity. Write overviews of systems including concepts, terminology definitions and descriptions of how these concepts work together. Having a 'living document' to help drive dialogue and exchange of ideas through collaboration helps this process significantly. Organize your dev team's sprint backlog and visualize them with status, assignees, reviewers, due date and everything you need. Reduce repeated progress updates in the company chat and standup meetings. It’s time to aggregate your knowledge in a single place. Build a team-wide knowledge management system to solve the information silos. Maximize the developer team's velocity with a document-centric workflow. Collaborate with your teammates in a doc with Boost Note's real-time editing. Boost Note's editor makes it easy to write a tech spec with Charts.js, Mermaid, Latex, PlantUML and so on. -
Comet Backup - Fast, Secure Backup Software for MSPsComet is a flexible backup platform, giving you total control over your backup environment and storage destinations.
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Cucumber.js
Cucumber for JavaScript
Cucumber is a tool for running automated tests written in plain language. Because they're written in plain language, they can be read by anyone on your team. Because they can be read by anyone, you can use them to help improve communication, collaboration and trust on your team. Cucumber.js is the JavaScript implementation of Cucumber and runs on the maintained Node.js versions. It’s simple. Whether open source or commercial, our collaboration tools will boost your engineering team's performance by employing Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). And with our world-class training, take it to places it’s never been. Validate executable specifications against your code on any modern development stack. 40+ million open source downloads, the #1 tool for BDD. CucumberStudio is the leading collaboration platform for BDD - an easy-to-use tool to define ideas, test code, and learn in production from real-time insight. -
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Personal wiki that lives in one self-modifying XHTML containing software, interface and data. Very useful for creating small websites and mantaining notes or todo-lists; completely javascript-programmable, supports encryption and file embedding.
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StatSVN is a metrics-analysis tool for charting software evolution through analysis of Subversion source repositories.
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DICOM Image Reader
A minimal Medical application to read and view DICOM (dcm) image file
Dicom Image Reader is opensource medical image viewer built with JavaScript, HTML5, NodeJS and Electron framework. It can load data in DICOM format (single image dcm) and provides standard tools for its manipulation such as contrast, zoom, drag, possibility to draw regions on top of the image and imaging filters such as threshold and sharpening. It is based DWV JavaScript opensource library. =============== Requirements: - Processor: Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE2 capable - RAM: 512 MB - Hard Disk: 1500 MB - Video Card: nVidia, ATI and Intel Shader Model 2 and Shader Model 3 video cards with 512 megabytes of RAM minimum - Supported OS: Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 =============== Alternative software for Windows: Available on Ecwid - https://goo.gl/twBcAq =============== Android App: https://goo.gl/i4NX9K -------------- Chrome app Release Pro: https://goo.gl/p456N5 -
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Piggydb
Piggydb helps you have more fun with knowledge creation.
Piggydb is a flexible and scalable knowledge building platform that supports a heuristic or bottom-up approach to discover new concepts or ideas based on your input. You can begin with using it as a flexible outliner, diary or notebook, and as your database grows, Piggydb helps you to shape or elaborate your own knowledge. Piggydb is a Web application provided as a self-contained package that contains a Web server and database engine. With Piggydb, you can create highly structured content by connecting knowledge fragments to each other to build a network structure, which is more flexible and expressive than a tree structure. Fragments can also be classified using hierarchical tags. -
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deplate is a tool for converting wiki-like markup to latex, docbook, html, or "html-slides". It supports embedded LaTeX code, footnotes, citations, biblographies, automatic generation of an index etc.
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This Java application serves to transform W3C XML Schema instances into interactive diagrams in SVG format. The diagram represents structure of XML files and provides information about individual items – elements and attributes.
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Docmenta
Single Source Publishing Web-Application
Docmenta is a Java web-application for single source publishing and help authoring. The application allows collaborative creation of documentation, e-books and online-help. Supported output formats are PDF, HTML, WebHelp, EPUB (eBook) and DocBook. For more information, visit: http://www.docmenta.org -
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XSL-FO Formatting markup WYSIWYG editor & PDF tree BookMark. XML document which is most often used as PDFs or RTF generator. It can read and edit 95% from Apache fop sample. Export to fo,pdf,rtf,tif fax, page, Import fo,html,page,odt OpenOffice 1-2
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A Java-Based, wiki-style application for personal use with searching capabilities. It will store your notes in a single, local, crypted Zipfile for easy handling.
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REVER is a release manager for products. It's a tool that allows users to follow product releases, even hard or software. Depending what kind of user you are and your permissions, you will have a particular vision about the product. Openware.
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Provides a toolset and usage convention for Code Tags (eg TODO, FIXME, BUG) in source file comments.
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Docgen plugin for Protege provides a quick export of all the content of an ontology (classes, instances and documentation) in various formats (html, pdf, fo...). Images, Graphs, URL are readyly included in reports.
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Doxygen OpenOffice filter
Doxygen OpenOffice import filter
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Excel to Graphviz
Create graphviz diagrams with excel
Free, easy to use, excel tool to create data and process flow diagrams with table data In separate excel sheets you define items(nodes), lines(edges) and grouping(clusters) Separate definition of node, edge and cluster styles Graph settings sheet Output control sheet Examples and readme are included in the zip file Get it working: -Install graphviz (http://graphviz.org/Download.php) -Download Excel to Graphviz -Open one of the ExcelToGraphviz workbooks -Go to sheet settings and update "dotpath" to where graphviz' dot.exe was installed (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Graphviz2.38\bin\dot.exe) -Generate the flow diagram with cntrl-M -Import from older version with cntrl-I This tool was initially made to show the usefulness of a service registry or service catalog in an enterprise integration environment. Therefore most examples are (anonymized) output of its use with ESB's at various telecom, banking and logistics companies Review/Feedback appreciated
