Open Source Python Text Processing Software

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A Python Scripting plugin for Notepad++. Complete easy script access to all of the editor's features (including absolutely everything in Scintilla). Configurable menus and toolbar options, assign shortcuts to scripts.

Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can retrieve files for comparison from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories.

Utilities for general- and special-purpose documentation. Includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.

PDF-Shuffler is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a frontend for python-pyPdf.

Bundles Portable Python (with PyGTK) and Meld together in an easy to use installer. This allows you to not have to worry about setting up Python or PyGTK and you can keep Meld's Python separate from other Python installations on your machine. ** NOTE ** Meld 3.11 and later now have official installers, hence this project is no longer supported. You can download the new installer here: https://download.gnome.org/binaries/win32/meld/. You should uninstall the old 1.8 version before upgrading.

Tomoe is a handwriting character recognition engine.

PyRtfLib is a python library that provides a parser and few translators like rtf to html and to simple text.

Simple, Pythonic, text processing, Sentiment analysis, part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction, translation, and more. It provides a simple API for diving into common natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction, sentiment analysis, classification, translation, and more. TextBlob stands on the giant shoulders of NLTK and pattern, and plays nicely with both. Supports word inflection (pluralization and singularization) and lemmatization, as well as spelling correction. Add new models or languages through extensions. Also, it comes with a WordNet integration. If you only intend to use TextBlob’s default models (no model overrides), you can pass the lite argument. This downloads only those corpora needed for basic functionality. TextBlob is also available as a conda package.

DrPython is a highly customizable cross-platform ide to aid programming in Python. It was developed with teaching in mind, and has a clean, simple interface. It is written in Python, using wxPython as the gui.

The EpiDoc Collaborative is developing specifications and tools for standards-based, digital publication and interchange of scholarly and educational editions of documentary and literary texts like inscriptions and papyri. The link below will take you to the EpiDoc home page on this site.

PyRTF is a pure python module for the efficient creation of RTF documents.

Queequeg is an English grammar checker for non-native English speakers.

DocLite is a simple documentation authoring system, it produces multi-page HTML output (like this document) in a style similar to that found in the Linux HOTWTOs or other DocBook created documents.

The Python scripts for the conversion from the Chinese Pinyin transcription(ISO 7098) to International Phonetic Alphabet(IPA), comprised of a core module for developers and a flexible GUI application for the common end-users on Modern Chinese phonetics.

arCHMage is a reader and decompiler for files in the CHM format. This is the format used by Microsoft HTML Help, and is also known as Compiled HTML.

A python module that provides algorithms for advanced search - basically all you need to build a search engine.

Alphabetizer lets anyone take a list of words or sentences and arranged them in alphabetical order easily. Alphabetizer is a tool that takes a list of words or phrases and arranged them in alphabetical order. This tool is useful for organizing information, creating glossaries, sorting names, or any task where the items in a list need to be in alphabetical order. Overall, Alphabetizer can save time and effort by quickly organizing information and making it easier to read and comprehend.

Atox is a fully customizable Python library and command-line tool for converting plain text into XML.

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.

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.

Pyana is a extension module that allows Python programs to interface with the Apache Software Foundation's Xalan XSLT transformation engine.

SLIP is a quick, simple, and clean shorthand syntax for creating and editing XML data by hand.

TeXML is an XML vocabulary for TeX. The processor transforms the TeXML markup into the TeX markup, escaping special and out-of-encoding characters. The intended audience is developers who automatically generate [La]TeX or ConTeXt files.

xml2txt is a text formatter for XMl in the same way the FO is a PDF formatter. It uses python to convert an XML document to well-formatted text, wtih borders, indents, and tables.