Category:Editing and Publishing Tools

A Catalogue of Free/Open Source Software for Translators

Program Name	Typology	Operating system
AbiWord	Word processor	Windows GNU/Linux MacOS X
Aegisub	Subtitle editor	Windows GNU/Linux Mac OS X
Aloha Editor	HTML editor
BlueGriffon	HTML editor	Windows GNU/Linux Mac OS X
Bluefish	Text editor	GNU/Linux FreeBSD MacOS-X OpenBSD Solaris Windows
CMSwithTMS	Multilingual publishing
Codepage Converter	Character encoding converter	Windows Mac OS X GNU/Linux
DiffPDF	Differencing tool	Windows GNU/Linux Mac OS X
Diffuse	Differencing tool	Windows GNU/Linux Mac OS X
GIMP	Advanced image editor	GNU/Linux Windows
GImageReader	Optical character recognition	GNU/Linux
GNU Emacs	Text editor	GNU/Linux Windows Mac OS X MS DOS Solaris *BSD
GOCR	Optical character recognition	GNU/Linux Windows
Gaupol Subtitle Editor	Subtitle editor	GNU/Linux Windows Mac OS X
Gnome Subtitles	Subtitle editor	Linux (GNOME desktop)
Inkscape	Scalable vector graphics editor	GNU/Linux Windows Mac OS X
JEdit	Text editor	Windows GNU/Linux Mac OS X
Jubler	Subtitle editor	Windows GNU/Linux Mac OS X
KOffice	Office suite	Linux
KompoZer	HTML editor	Windows Linux Mac OS X
LibreOffice	Office suite	Windows GNU/Linux Mac OS X
LyX	LaTeX editor	Windows GNU/Linux Mac OS X
Notepad-plus-plus	Text editor	Windows
OCRFeeder	Optical character recognition	GNU/Linux
Ocrad	Optical character recognition	Linux
Ocre	Optical character recognition	Linux
OpenOffice.org	Office suite	Windows GNU/Linux Solaris Mac OS X
PDF Import	PDF editing	Windows GNU/Linux Mac OS X
PDFTOHTML	PDF to HTML converter	Windows GNU/Linux Mac OS X
PDFedit	PDF manipulation	Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes)
PS BRAMUS.TextConvert	Format conversion
Pandoc	Format conversion	Windows GNU/Linux Mac OS X
Pdftk	PDF manipulation	Windows Linux Mac OS X FreeBSD and Solaris
Scribus	Desktop publishing	Linux/Unix MacOS X Windows
Serna Free XML Editor	XML editor	Window 2000/XP/Vista Linux Mac OS X
Subtitle Edit	Subtitle editor	Windows
Subtitle Editor	Subtitle editor	GNU/Linux BSD
Tesseract-ocr	Optical character recognition	Windows GNU/Linux
Tickle Text	Text editor	Linux
Transcriber	Transcribing tool	Windows XP/2k Mac OS X GNU/Linux
VietOCR	Optical character recognition	Windows GNU/Linux Mac OS X
VisualSubSync	Subtitle editor	Windows (NT/2000/XP)
WinMerge	Differencing tool	Windows
XML Copy Editor	XML editor	Windows (NT/2000/XP) GNU/Linux
Xerlin	XML editor	Windows GNU/Linux Mac OS X
Xpdf	PDF viewer and converter	GUI: UNIX/VMS/OS/2 CLI: Windows