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    AkelPad
    A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast.
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    Downloads: 1,745 This Week
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    LibreOffice

    LibreOffice

    A free and powerful office suite

    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).
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    Downloads: 935 This Week
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    Pootle, Virtaal & Translate Toolkit

    Pootle, Virtaal & Translate Toolkit

    Localization tools built by localizers for localizers

    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).
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    Downloads: 82 This Week
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    FCKeditor

    FCKeditor

    FCKeditor (retired)

    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
    Downloads: 42 This Week
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    Gnome Subtitles
    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.
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    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    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
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    htmlarea

    htmlarea

    Small, powerful, full featured WYSIWYG editor

    HTMLArea 4 is a browser based WYSIWYG editor that easily replaces the TEXTAREA in your web pages. It is written in JavaScript, and suitable for use in any modern web browser, and any page on your web site. Current version is 4.0-2016-08-29
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    ConDei is a fast viewer/basic editor for programmers. The editor has sythax highlighting features. It was created for rapid previewing and editing of text files. (romanian language interface)
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    JDocumentOrganizer (jDORG) is, in fact, a way to edit and keep your favorite quotes, culinary recipes , lyrics, and other piece of text you want. The editor let you format the texts in the way you want, and you can categorize them as you consider.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Notepad++

    Notepad++

    Notepad++ project is moving to GitHub:

    Notepad++ project is moving to GitHub: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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