Antiword is an application for displaying Microsoft Word documents. It can also convert the document to PostScript or XML. Only documents made by MS Word version 2 and version 6 or later are supported. The name comes from: "The antidote against people who send Microsoft Word files to everybody, because they believe that everybody runs Windows and therefore runs Word".

Useful tools when working with Unicode files when one doesn't know the writing system, doesn't have the necessary font, needs to inspect invisible characters, needs to find out whether characters have been combined or in what order they occur, or needs statistics on which characters occur.

• uniname defaults to printing the character offset of each character, its byte offset, its hex code value, its encoding, the glyph itself, and its name. It may also be used to validate UTF-8 input.

• unidesc reports the character ranges to which different portions of the text belong. It can also be used to identify Unicode encodings (e.g. UTF-16be) flagged by magic numbers.

• unihist generates a histogram of the characters in its input.

• ExplicateUTF8 is intended for debugging or for learning about Unicode. It determines and explains the validity of a sequence of bytes as a UTF8 encoding.

• utf8lookup provides a handy way to look up Unicode characters from the command line.

• unireverse reverse each line of UTF-8 input character-by-character.

• unifuzz generates test input for programs that expect Unicode. It can generate a random string of characters, tokens of various potentially problematic characters and sequences, very long lines, strings with embedded nulls, and ill-formed UTF-8.

• unisurrogate takes a codepoint on the command line and, if it falls outside the BMP, reports its surrogate decomposition.

Oniguruma is a regular expressions library. The special characteristic of this library is that different character encoding for every regular expression object can be specified.

utf-8-lineseparator provides a tool to efficiently check text files for valid UTF-8 use and to report which line endings they use.

C library for creating and parsing configuration files.

GoAWK is a POSIX-compatible version of AWK that also has a CSV mode for reading and writing CSV and TSV files.

The drm_tools package contains the following commands:

accudate

An extended version of the "date" program that has sub-second accuracy.

binformat

Format complex binary data into text.

binload

Load data into a binary file using simple commands from the input.

binorder

Sort, merge, search, retrieve or generate test data consisting of fixed size binary records.

binreplace

Find or find/replace in binary files.

binsplit

Split test data consisting of fixed size binary records into one or more output streams.

chardiff

Find changes between two files at the character level. Unlike "diff", it lists just the characters that differ, so if the 40,000th character is different only that one character will be shown, not the entire line.

columnadd

Add columns of integers, decimals, and/or times.

datasniffer

A utility for formatting binary data dumps.

dmath

Double precision interactive command line math calculator.

extract

Extract and emit data from text files based on character or token position.

execinput

A utility that reads from STDIN and executes each line as a command in a sub-process.

indexed_text

A utility for rapid retrieval of text by line numbers, in any order, from a text file.

mdump

Format binary data.

msgqueue

Create message queues and send/receive messages.

mbin

dtmbout

Multiple buffer in and out. Used for buffering a lot of data between a slow device and a fast device. Mostly for buffering streaming tape drives for use with slower network connections, so that streaming is maintained as much as possible to minimize wear on the tape device.

pockmark

Corrupt data streams - useful for testing error correction and data recovery.

tarsieve

Filter, list, or split a tar file.

The Recode library converts files between character sets and usages. It recognises or produces over 200 different character sets (or about 300 if combined with an iconv library) and transliterates files between almost any pair. When exact transliteration are not possible, it gets rid of offending characters or falls back on approximations. The recode program is a handy front-end to the library.

docx2txt is a Perl based command line utility to convert Microsoft Office .docx documents to equivalent text documents. Latest version supports following features during text extraction.

• Character conversions; currency characters are converted to respective names like Euro.

• Capitalisation of text blocks.

• Center and right justification of text fitting in a line of (configurable) 80 columns.

• Horizontal ruler, line breaks, paragraphs separation, tabs.

• Indicating hyperlinked text along with the hyperlink (configurable).

• Handling (bullet, decimal, letter, roman) lists along with (attempt at) indentation.

dbacl is a fast Bayesian text and email classifier. It builds a variety of language models using maximum entropy (minimum divergence) principles, and these can then be used to categorize input data automatically among multiple categories.

libgtextutils is a text utilities library used by the fastx toolkit from the Hannon Lab.

utf8proc is a small C library that provides Unicode normalization, case-folding, and other operations for data in the UTF-8 encoding.

Ustr is a string library for C with very low memory overhead.

dos2unix is a tool to convert line breaks in a text file from Unix format to DOS format and vice versa.

Enca (Extremely Naive Charset Analyser) consists of libenca, an encoding detection library, and enca, a command line frontend, integrating libenca and several charset conversion libraries and tools.

UTF8-CPP is a C++ library for handling UTF-8 encoded text in a portable way.

With Papis, you can search your library for books and papers, add documents and notes, import and export to and from other formats, and much much more. Papis uses a human-readable and easily hackable .yaml file to store each entry's bibliographical data. It strives to be easy to use while providing a wide range of features. And for those who still want more, Papis makes it easy to write scripts that extend its features even further.

Features:

• Add documents and automatically fetch their metadata.

• Search by author, title, tags, and so on.

• Synchronize your library with whatever software you're already using.

• Share your documents with colleagues without having to force some proprietary service onto them.

• Import your data from other bibliography managers.

• Export to BibTeX and other formats.

• Integrate with your editor with plugins for (Neo)vim and Emacs.

• TUIs make it easy to get a quick overview of your library.

• Use the web app when the CLI doesn't quite cut it (for example on your tablet).

• Hacking Papis is easy! Use the API to easily create your own custom Python scripts.

catdoc extracts text from MS-Word files, trying to preserve as many special printable characters as possible. It supports everything up to Word-97. Also supported are MS Write documents and RTF files.

catdoc does not preserve complex word formatting, but it can translate some non-ASCII characters into TeX escape codes. It's goal is to extract plain text and allow you to read it and, probably, reformat with TeX, according to TeXnical rules.

This package also provides xls2csv, which extracts data from Excel spreadsheets and outputs it in comma-separated-value format, and catppt, which extracts data from PowerPoint presentations.

This package provides the tldr command allowing users to view tldr pages from a shell. The tldr pages are a community effort to simplify the man pages with practical examples described in https://tldr.sh/.

html2text is a command line utility that converts HTML documents into plain text.

Vale is a fully extensible linter that focuses on your own writing style by making use of rules in individual YAML files. It is syntax-aware on markup languages such as HTML, Markdown, Asciidoc, and reStructuredText. The community around it also has a list of style guides implemented with Vale in their styles repo.

Libchardet is a universal charset detector C/C++ API.

rdate connects to an RFC 868 time server over a TCP/IP network, printing the returned time and/or setting the system clock.

This library brings the Olson tz database into Python. It allows accurate and cross platform timezone calculations using Python 2.4 or higher. It also solves the issue of ambiguous times at the end of daylight saving time. Almost all of the Olson timezones are supported.