The two programs are useful for generating test data, for inspecting binary files, and for interfacing programs that generate textual output to programs that require binary input and conversely. They can also be useful when it is desired to reformat numbers.

• ascii2binary reads input consisting of ascii or hexadecimal representation numbers separated by whitespace and produces as output the binary equivalents. The type and precision of the binary output is selected using command line flags.

• binary2ascii reads input consisting of binary numbers and converts them to their ascii or hexadecimal representation. Command line flags specify the type and size of the binary numbers and provide control over the format of the output. Unsigned integers may be written out in binary, octal, decimal, or hexadecimal.

  Signed integers may be written out only in binary or decimal. Floating point numbers may be written out only decimal, either in standard or scientific notation. (If you want to examine the binary representation of floating point numbers, just treat the input as a sequence of unsigned characters.)

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.

This package transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to use line-based tools such as grep to search for what you want and see the absolute "path" to it.

cobib is a command-line based bibliography management tool. It uses a plain-text database, a location-independent library, and features git integration, command-line support, and a curses-based TUI.

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.

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/.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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".

cobib is a command-line based bibliography management tool. It uses a plain-text database, a location-independent library, and features git integration, command-line support, and a curses-based TUI.

pandoc-include extends Pandoc to support:

1. include as raw blocks

2. indent and dedent included contents

3. partial include

4. code include

5. Unix style pathname

6. recursive include

7. Yaml header merging

8. header include

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

Libconfig is a simple library for manipulating structured configuration files. This file format is more compact and more readable than XML. And unlike XML, it is type-aware, so it is not necessary to do string parsing in application code.

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/.

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

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.

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.

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.

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