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    XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for text files with UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc utilities.
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    Downloads: 1,934 This Week
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    Unikey Vietnamese Input Method

    A Vietnamese keyboard for Windows and Linux

    A Vietnamese keyboard for Windows and Linux
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    Downloads: 690 This Week
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    Bowtie, an ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner for short DNA sequences (reads) from next-gen sequencers. Please cite: Langmead B, et al. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome. Genome Biol 10:R25.
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    Downloads: 494 This Week
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    Swiss File Knife

    Swiss File Knife

    One hundred command line tools in a small and portable binary.

    Create zip files, extract zip files, replace text in files, search in files using expressions, stream text editor, instant command line ftp and http server, send folder via network, copy folder excluding sub folders and files, find duplicate files, run a command on all files of a folder, split and join large files, make md5 checksum lists of files, remove tab characters, convert CR/LF, list newest or biggest files of a folder, compare folders, treesize, show first or last lines of a file, find filenames fast using index files, rename many files using expressions, copy part of a file, change times of a file, set file time from filename, print colored text to terminal, convert csv to tab separated, download files from web, send http or udp requests, print tcp or udp traffic, create hexdump of files, join many text files into one, list nested .zip .tar .tar.gz .tar.bz2 archive contents. Fully portable, for USB stick, without installation. For Windows, Linux and Mac OS/X.
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    Downloads: 483 This Week
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    Allows editing of any size file in hexadecimal, decimal and ASCII. A great tool that allows you to edit and analyze the contents for either the data or resource fork of any type of file. 68K, PPC and Carbon run on MacOS 7-9 and X.
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    Downloads: 217 This Week
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    DeepSpeech

    DeepSpeech

    Open source embedded speech-to-text engine

    DeepSpeech is an open source embedded (offline, on-device) speech-to-text engine which can run in real time on devices ranging from a Raspberry Pi 4 to high power GPU servers. DeepSpeech is an open-source Speech-To-Text engine, using a model trained by machine learning techniques based on Baidu's Deep Speech research paper. Project DeepSpeech uses Google's TensorFlow to make the implementation easier. A pre-trained English model is available for use and can be downloaded following the instructions in the usage docs. If you want to use the pre-trained English model for performing speech-to-text, you can download it (along with other important inference material) from the DeepSpeech releases page.
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    RecordEditor

    Editor for Fixed Width, Csv and Existing Xml files.

    The RecordEditor is a Data File editor for Flat Files (delimited and fixed field position). It supports Unix / PC / Legacy (e.g. Mainframe) file formats, both Text and binary files. The Editor uses a Record-Layout description to format the files. This is ideal for Fixed width (Text or Binary) files, Cobol Data Files, Mainframe files and complicated Csv files. Cobol Copybooks can be used to format Cobol Data files. As well as an editor, The following utilities are supplied * Formatted Compare * File Copy and reformat Utility * FileWizard this is use to work out the format of a File. It can generally find both Text and binary / packed deicimal fields in a file For Simple Csv you should look at its sister project reCsvEditor. Note: The core Editor code is also used in the "Protocol buffers editor" and "Avro Editor"
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    Downloads: 63 This Week
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    docx2txt

    docx2txt

    Perl based utility to extract formatted text content from MS Docx file

    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.
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    Downloads: 76 This Week
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    AutoText

    AutoText

    Text expander(auto-type) application

    AutoText is a text expander(auto-typer) application that can minimize time that you spent typing phrases that your often use. You can bind an abbreviation(autotext) to some text snippet, phrase or sentence and that text will be automatically typed by AutoText each time you type the abbreviation. Keyboard keys press/hold/toggle is supported by using macros. AutoText works in any Windows program.
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    Downloads: 62 This Week
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    FAR - Find And Replace
    Search and replace operations on file content accross multiple files. Recursive operations within entire directory trees. FAR comes with support for regular expressions (regex) over multiple lines, automatic backup and various character encodings. Run grep like extractions to condense or rearrange sources, or perform bulk file renaming.
    Downloads: 33 This Week
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    Find And Replace Text command line utility. New & improved version of the well-known grep command, with advanced features such as: case-adaption of the replace string; find (& replace) in filenames, auto CVS edit. Moved to https://github.com/lionello/fart-it
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    Downloads: 36 This Week
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    Marathi / Hindi Typing
    Marathi Hindi Phonetic typing. We can type Marathi/Hindi typing as phonetic. Copy Marathi/Hindi, use any where. For any information Kindly contact nitin.tkarale@gmail.com
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    PiNote

    PiNote

    PiNote is a free source code editor that supports several languages.

    PiNote is a free source code editor that supports several languages. Running on Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi. Written in free pascal and Lazarus IDE, use the SynEdit component with extended syntax highlighter modules. PiNote's many features include macro recording, code highlighting, encryption and/or decryption of text and files and more.
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    lde is a disk editor for linux, originally written to help recover deleted files. It has a simple curses interface that was supposed to resemble an old version of Norton Disk Edit for DOS. Works well with ext2, minix, xiafs. Not so hot w/fat and iso9660
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Text Line Duplicate Remover

    Text Line Duplicate Remover

    Remove duplicate lines from your text

    This standalone offline web browser tool helps you remove duplicate lines from your text, with additional text processing options. Simply open it in your browser by double-clicking the html file. It also includes the source code too. I made this when I was working with long lists of entries and needed something to automatically clean them up. As a bonus you can also change the Sentence Case of the text, make it lowercase, UPPERCASE or Sentence case.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    This is a character and items editor for the game Diablo 2 (D2). This also features updates for the expansion pack Diablo 2 LOD. Features include stat editor, money, inventory, and gem upgrade system. Donations are needed and will soon be accepted!
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    My Simple LogBook
    MSLB is a crossplatform Simple Logbook program / application to write work logs or even a diary. MSLB can also use a bunch of presets that you can add with a simple doubleclick :) Logs get saved in a simple folder system. And its all portable.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    DocWire SDK

    DocWire SDK

    Award-winning modern data processing SDK in C++20

    DocWire SDK, a standout C++20AI driven data processing tool, has received award from SourceForge and strong backing from Microsoft. It handles nearly 100 file types, empowering efficient text extraction, web data extraction, and document analysis. For businesses, the shift to DocWire SDK signifies a leap forward. It promises comprehensive document format support and the ability to extract valuable insights from email boxes, databases, and websites using cutting-edge AI. DocWire SDK aims to expand its capabilities, focusing on versatile data extraction, platform support, and seamless integration with various systems. DocWire SDK is dedicated to streamlining data processing, reducing development time and costs, and harnessing the potential of AI. Its advancements promise a superior experience compared to its predecessor, DocToText.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Lazyread auto-scrolls files or command output to the screen. Change scroll modes, scroll-speed, colors, pause, search, etc. Render text, HTML, PDF, gzip, tar, zip, ar, bzip2, MS-Word, nroff, binary, directories, .deb, .so, .rpm, piped output and more
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    A visual interface to the command line programs of leJOS. It includes syntax highlighting, and later, auto-typer and an installer.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    BinEditor is a editor for binary files, can show the bytes or nibbles as hexadecimal, decimal or binary value. Currently the project is dead, if any want to takeover, email to mariocastelancastro@gmail.com
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Boarded - on-screen keyboard for X11
    Boarded is a virtual on-screen keyboard for the X11 window system. It's intended to be used on mobile devices without a hardware keyboard. It allows you to design your own keyboard layouts, specifying key positioning/grouping and setting own colors.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Mickey is a hex/ascii file viewer and editor that runs on all major operating systems thanks to FLTK.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    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.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    TEA is a text editor that provides a wide range of text-processing functions (over 100) and the syntax highlighting. There are two branches of TEA: Qt-based and GTK-based.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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