List of Applications/Documents


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Documents

Document Readers

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: List of PDF software

Console

  • fbdjvu — DjVu viewer similar for fbpdf
http://repo.or.cz/w/fbpdf.git || not packaged? (search in the package database)
  • fbpdf — Small framebuffer PDF viewer based off of MuPDF, with Vim keybindings and written in C
http://repo.or.cz/w/fbpdf.git || fbpdf-git
  • jfbview — Framebuffer PDF and image viewer. Features include Vim-like controls, zoom-to-fit, a TOC (outline) view, fast multi-threaded rendering and asynchronous pre-caching
http://cjix.info/blog/jfbview/ || jfbview

Graphical

  • apvlv — Lightweight PDF/DjVu/UMD/TXT viewer with Vim keybindings.
http://naihe2010.github.com/apvlv/ || apvlv
  • ePDFView — Free lightweight PDF document viewer using the Poppler and GTK+ libraries. Development stopped.
http://freecode.com/projects/epdfview || epdfview
  • Evince — Document viewer for multiple document formats. Supports PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF and DVI.
http://projects.gnome.org/evince/ || evince
  • Iceweasel — Open source web browser with a built-in PDF viewer.
http://www.geticeweasel.org/ || iceweasel
  • Icecat — Open source web browser with a built-in PDF viewer.
http://gnuzilla.gnu.org/ || icecat
  • llpp — Very fast PDF reader based off of MuPDF, that supports continuous page scrolling, bookmarking, and text search through the whole document.
http://repo.or.cz/w/llpp.git || llpp-git
  • MuPDF — Very fast PDF and XPS viewer and toolkit written in portable C. Features CJK font support.
http://mupdf.com || mupdf
  • Okular — Very powerful viewer for KDE.
http://okular.kde.org/ || kdegraphics-okular
  • qpdfview — Tabbed PDF viewer using the Poppler and Qt libraries.
https://launchpad.net/qpdfview || qpdfview
  • Xournal — Pdf viewer/note taking application.
http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ || xournal
  • Xpdf — Viewer that can decode LZW and read encrypted PDFs.
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ || xpdf
  • zathura — Highly customizable and functional PDF/DjVu/PostScript/ComicBook viewer (plugin based).
http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/ || zathura
CHM Viewers
  • ChmSee — CHM viewer based on xulrunner.
https://code.google.com/p/chmsee/ || chmsee
  • GnoCHM — CHM viewer meant to integrate with GNOME, based on pychm.
http://gnochm.sourceforge.net/ || gnochm
  • Kchmviewer — Qt-based CHM viewer that uses chmlib and borrows some ideas from xchm. It does not depend on KDE, but it can be compiled to integrate with it.
http://www.ulduzsoft.com/kchmviewer/ || kchmviewer
  • xCHM — Lightweight CHM viewer, based on chmlib.
http://xchm.sf.net/ || xchm

Office suites

  • Calligra — Actively developed fork of KOffice, the KDE office suite. It offers most of the features of OpenOffice while also having versions for smartphones (Calligra Mobile) and tablets (Calligra Active).
http://www.calligra-suite.org/ || calligra
  • Feng Office Community Edition — an open source collaboration platform, a fully featured online office suite available for download and installation on a server.
http://www.fengoffice.com/web/opensource/ || not packaged? (search in the package database)
  • LibreOffice — More actively developed fork of OpenOffice.
https://www.libreoffice.org/ || libreoffice
  • Apache OpenOffice — Open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more, under the Apache 2 Licence.
http://www.openoffice.org/ || openoffice-base-bin
  • Siag Office — Extremely lightweight office suite that provides a word processor, spreadsheet, text editor, file manager and previewer.
http://siag.nu/ || siag-office
  • Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware — a free and open source wiki-based, content management system and Online office suite written primarily in PHP.
http://tiki.org/ || not packaged? (search in the package database)

Indexers

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: List of search engines#Desktop search engines
  • Pinot — Personal search and metasearch tool
http://code.google.com/p/pinot-search/ || pinot
  • Recoll — Full text search tool with a Xapian backend.
http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ || recoll
  • Strigi — Fast crawling desktop search engine with a Qt GUI.
http://strigi.sourceforge.net/ || strigi
  • Tracker — All-in-one indexer, search tool and metadata database.
http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/index.html || tracker

Word processors

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of word processors
  • Abiword — Full-featured word processor.
http://www.abisource.com/ || abiword
  • Abiword Minimal — Minimal version of Abiword.
http://www.abisource.com/ || abiword-minimal
  • BlueGriffon — WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web.
http://www.bluegriffon.com/ || bluegriffon
  • Calligra Words — Powerful word processor included in the Calligra Suite.
http://www.calligra.org/words/ || calligra-words
https://www.libreoffice.org/ || libreoffice-writer
  • Markdown — Text-to-HTML conversion tool that allows you to write using a simple plain text format.
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown || markdown
  • OpenOffice Writer — Full-featured word processor included in the OpenOffice suite.
http://www.openoffice.org/ || openoffice-base-bin
  • Pandoc — Swiss-army knife for converting one markup format into another (supports Markdown).
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc || haskell-pandoc
  • Pathetic Writer — X-based rich text processor included in Siag Office.
http://siag.nu/pw/ || siag-office
  • Scribus — Desktop publishing program.
http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus || scribus
  • Ted — Easy to use GTK+-based rich text processor (with footnote support).
http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ || ted
  • txt2tags — Dead-simple, KISS-compliant lightweight, human-readable markup language to produce rich format content out of plain text files.
http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net || txt2tags

Spreadsheets

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of spreadsheet software
  • Calligra Sheets — Powerful spreadsheet application included in the Calligra Suite
http://www.calligra.org/sheets/ || calligra-sheets
  • Gnumeric — Spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME desktop.
http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ || gnumeric
  • LibreOffice Calc — Full-featured spreadsheet application included in the LibreOffice suite.
https://www.libreoffice.org/features/calc/ || libreoffice-calc
  • OpenOffice Calc — Full-featured spreadsheet application included in the OpenOffice suite.
http://openoffice.org/product/calc || openoffice-base-bin
  • Siag — Spreadsheet application based on the X Window System and the Scheme programming language included in Siag Office.
http://siag.nu/siag/ || siag-office

Scientific Documents

With LaTeX, creation of any scientific document, article, journal, etc. is made commonplace.

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of TeX editors
  • AUCTeX — Extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in Emacs.
https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ || auctex
  • Gummi — Lightweight TeX/LaTeX GTK+-based editor.
http://dev.midnightcoding.org/projects/gummi || gummi
  • Kile — User-friendly TeX/LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop with many features.
http://kile.sourceforge.net/ || kile
  • LyX — Document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG).
http://www.lyx.org/ || lyx
  • TeXmacs — WYSIWYW editing platform with special features for scientists.
http://www.texmacs.org/ || texmacs
  • Texmaker — Cross-platform, light and easy-to-use LaTeX IDE.
http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/index.html || texmaker
  • Winefish — Editor for experienced LaTeX users with support for UTF-8, syntax highlight, auto-completion and auto-text.
http://winefish.berlios.de/ || winefish

OCR software

  • CuneiForm — a software tool for optical character recognition.
http://en.openocr.org/ || cuneiform
  • GOCR — a free optical character recognition program that can be used to convert or scan image files (portable pixmap or PCX) into text files.
http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ || gocr
  • Ocrad — an optical character recognition program and part of the GNU Project.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ || ocrad
  • OCRFeeder — a free software desktop OCR suite for GNOME.
http://live.gnome.org/OCRFeeder || ocrfeeder
  • OCRopus — a free document analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) system released under the Apache License, Version 2.0 with a very modular design through the use of plugins.
http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ || ocropus
  • Tesseract — an optical character recognition engine founded in 1985.
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr || tesseract