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GNU/Linux Office Software
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AntConc - freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis AbiWord - Compose, edit, and view documents; listed because of Collaborate feature Calibre - E-book library management CoolReader - fast and small cross-platform XML/CSS based eBook reader for desktops and handheld devices Dictionary (Xfce4) - a client program to query different dictionaries Efax-gtk - GUI front end for the efax fax program espeakedit - eSpeak voice editor Font Manager - preview, compare, and manage fonts FreeMedForms - open source electronic medical/health record Gespeaker - a GTK+ frontend for eSpeak and mbrola Gnumeric - spreadsheet editor Gourmet - collect, search, organize, and browse your recipes HomeBank - free, easy, personal accounting for everyone gscan2pdf - a GUI to produce PDFs or DjVus from scanned documents ISO Master - an ISO image editor K3b - KDE CD burning program with ripping tool; however, if installing KDE stuff is an issue, use Brasero KeepNote - Note-taking application; similar to MyNotex but cross-platform LibreOffice - a free and open-source office suite Lyx - an easy to use WYSIWYG LaTeX editor; document processor to create scholastic[or boring]-looking articles, research papers, etc. Maps - a simple maps application Mendeley Desktop - a free reference manager and an academic social network MyNotex - take and manage textual notes; the best note-taking program I've seen so far novelWriter - use Markdown to write novels OpenEMR - open source electronic health records and medical practice management solution OpenTaxSolver - a free, safe + secure program for calculating Tax Form entries for Federal and State personal income taxes Osmo - personal organizer PDF-Shuffler - PDF merging, rearranging, splitting, rotating, and cropping Pyspread - Python spreadsheet application Qalculate - a powerful and easy to use calculator qpdfview - a tabbed PDF viewer using Qt and the Poppler library sprsht - a very lightweight, 32-bit, fltk-based spreadsheet program \| Source Twine - write interactive stories and presentations Xfburn - simple CD/DVD burning tool Xournal - an application for notetaking, sketching, and/or keeping a journal using a stylus Xournal++ - like Xournal but more cross-platform, extra features, and updated - Graph Paper Templates - Lulu Press Lined Paper - Lulu Press Graph Paper - Lulu Press Dot Grid Paper - Lulu Press Daily Planner Paper - Lulu Press Weekly Planner Paper - Lulu Press Monthly Planner Paper - Lulu Press Habit Tracking Paper xpdf - Portable Document Format (PDF) file viewer for X	abook - text-based address book program aiksaurus - English-language thesaurus ascii - ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal asciinema - terminal session recorder aspell - interactive spell-checker bc - an arbitrary precision calculator language; however, I recommend using 'python' even for just basic math instead cal, ncal - displays a calendar and the date of Easter calcurse - ncurses organizer cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output catdoc - reads MS-Word file and puts its content as plain text on standard output catppt - reads MS-PowerPoint file and puts its content on standard output cdw - front-end for cdrecord, mkisofs, growisofs, mkudffs and other tools dav - a minimalist ncurses-based text editor dict - a client for the Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) dvdauthor - assembles multiple mpeg program streams into a suitable DVD filesystem dvd+rw-mediainfo - creates a slideshow movie in DVD video format from a list of pictures and effects ecasound - sample editor, multitrack recorder, fx-processor, etc. echo - display a line of text efax - send/receive faxes with Class 1, 2 or 2.0 fax modem emojis - a unicode emoji table espeak - a multi-lingual software speech synthesizer fbgs - Poor man's PostScript/pdf viewer for the linux framebuffer console festival - a text-to-speech system gitview - an ASCII/HEX file viewer; part of the GNU Interactive Tools gnuplot - an interactive plotting program hledger-ui - curses-style interface for the hledger accounting tool hnb - Hierarchical notebook less - opposite of more look - check for an English word, from the dictionary, in case of confusion, right from the shell mapscii - a Braille and ASCII world map renderer for your console markdown - convert text to html mdp - a command-line based markdown presentation tool more - file perusal filter for crt viewing nano - Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone nl - outputs the content of text file with lines numbered OpenTaxSolver - a free, safe + secure program for calculating Tax Form entries for Federal and State personal income taxes pandoc - general markup converter patat - Presentations Atop The ANSI Terminal poppler-utils - PDF utilities (based on Poppler) presentty - console-based presentation software python - it's a programming language, but it's listed here because most CLI calculators just can't compete rubber - a building system for LaTeX documents spell - calls the Ispell utility; install if you want spell-checking for nano sc - spreadsheet calculator script - make typescript of terminal session sed - stream editor for filtering and transforming text soffice - use --headless flag to edit/convert documents; comes with LibreOffice or OpenOffice tac - concatenate and print files in reverse tee - read from standard input and write to standard output and files termgraph - a python command-line tool which draws basic graphs in the terminal termtosvg - renders your command line sessions as standalone SVG animations tesseract - command-line OCR engine touch - change file timestamps tpp - Text Presentation Program tudu - a command-line tool to manage TODO lists hierarchically txt2html - convert plain text file to HTML txt2man - convert flat ASCII text to man page format unhtml - strip the HTML formatting from a document or the standard input stream and display it to the standard output unoconv - convert any document from and to any LibreOffice supported format when - a minimalistic personal calendar program wikipedia2text - displays Wikipedia entries on the command line wkhtmlto[image,pdf] - 'wkhtmltoimage' converts HTML to an image while 'wkhtmltopdf' converts HTML to a PDF wordgrinder - console-based word processor wyrd - a text-based front-end to remind(1), a sophisticated calendar and alarm program xlsx2csv - convert xlsx xml files to csv format

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