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

C library for creating and parsing configuration files.

CityHash provides hash functions for strings. The functions mix the input bits thoroughly but are not suitable for cryptography.

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.

This package implements the functionality to generate text, XML, JSON, and HTML output using a common set of function calls. The caller decides at run time which output style should be produced. Afterwards, the caller calls the function xo_emit to produce output in a format described using a format string.

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.

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

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

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

ack is a tool for finding text inside files. It is designed for hackers and programmers by being fast, ignoring VCS directories, letting a user easily specify file types, match highlighting, Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions, and being faster to type than grep.

libconfuse is a configuration file parser library. It supports sections and (lists of) values (strings, integers, floats, booleans or other sections), as well as some other features (such as single/double-quoted strings, environment variable expansion, functions and nested include statements).

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/.

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.

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

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.

AutoComplete is a library allowing you to add IDE-like auto-completion (aka "code completion" or "Intellisense") to any Swing JTextComponent. Special integration is added for RSyntaxTextArea, since this feature is commonly needed when editing source code. Features include: Drop-down completion choice list. Optional companion "description" window, complete with full HTML support and navigable with hyperlinks. Optional parameter completion assistance for functions and methods, ala Eclipse and NetBeans. Completion information is typically specified in an XML file, but can even be dynamic.

pfff is a tool for calculating a compact digital fingerprint of a file by sampling randomly from the file instead of reading it in full. Consequently, the computation has a flat performance characteristic, correlated with data variation rather than file size. pfff can be as reliable as existing hashing techniques, with provably negligible risk of collisions.

txt2tags is a document generator. It reads a text file with minimal markup and converts it to multiple formats.

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.

Open Chinese Convert (OpenCC) converts between Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese, supporting character-level conversion, phrase-level conversion, variant conversion, and regional idioms among Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong-Kong.

This package provides converters for various bibliography formats (e.g. Bibtex, RIS, etc.) using a common XML intermediate.

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

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

RSyntaxTextArea is a syntax highlighting, code folding text component for Java Swing. It extends JTextComponent so it integrates completely with the standard javax.swing.text package. It is fast and efficient, and can be used in any application that needs to edit or view source code.