| a2ps | An Any to PostScript filter | |
| aiksaurus | A cross-platform, open-source thesaurus | |
| antiword | A free MS Word reader for Linux and RISC OS | |
| apvlv | A PDF Viewer which behaves like Vim | |
| asciidoc | Text document format for short documents, articles, books and UNIX man pages. | |
| aspell | A spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell | |
| barcode | A tool to convert text strings to printed bars | |
| bibletime | Bible study tool for KDE4 | |
| calibre | Ebook management application | |
| catdoc | A convertor for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and RTF Files to text | |
| chmsee | A chm (MS HTML help file format) viewer based on xulrunner. | |
| convertlit | An extractor/converter for .LIT eBooks | |
| convmv | Tool for converting encodings on filesystems | |
| cuneiform | Linux port of an OCR system developed in Russia. Supports more than 20 languages. | |
| dfm | A graphical file manager including desktop icons | |
| dictd | Online dictionary client and server | |
| diff2html | diff to html | |
| djview4 | Portable DjVu viewer and browser plugin | |
| docbook2x | A software package that converts DocBook documents into the traditional Unix man page format and the GNU Texinfo format. | |
| docbook-xml | A widely used XML scheme for writing documentation and help | |
| docbook-xsl | XML stylesheets for Docbook-xml transformations | |
| dos2unix | Text file format converter | |
| ebook-tools | Tools for accessing and converting various ebook file formats | |
| enchant | A wrapper library for generic spell checking | |
| enscript | Convert ASCII files to PostScript suitable for printing | |
| epdfview | A free lightweight PDF document viewer. | |
| evince | Simply a document viewer | |
| fbreader | An e-book reader for Linux | |
| gnome-doc-utils | Documentation utilities for Gnome | |
| gocr | Open-source character recognition (OCR) | |
| goldendict | Feature-rich dictionary lookup program | |
| gtkspell | GtkSpell provides word-processor-style highlighting and replacement of misspelled words in a GtkTextView widget | |
| gtranslator | An enhanced gettext po file editor for the GNOME | |
| gv | A program to view PostScript and PDF documents | |
| hd2u | Dos2Unix text file converter | |
| highlight | Fast and flexible source code highlighter (CLI version) | |
| hspell | Hebrew spell-checker | |
| htmldoc | Produce PDF or Postscript from HTML documents including TOCs and Indices | |
| hunspell | Spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program | |
| iso-codes | Lists of the country, language, and currency names | |
| ispell | An interactive spell-checking program for Unix | |
| jabref | GUI frontend for BibTeX, written in Java | |
| kchmviewer | A .chm files (MS HTML help file format) viewer | |
| libgxps | XPS Documents library | |
| libpaper | Library for handling paper characteristics | |
| libspectre | Small library for rendering Postscript documents | |
| libwpd | Library for importing WordPerfect (tm) documents | |
| libwpg | Library for importing and converting Corel WordPerfect(tm) Graphics images. | |
| libwps | a Microsoft Works file word processor format import filter library | |
| lout | A lightweight document formatting system. | |
| mftrace | Traces TeX bitmap fonts into PFA, PFB, or TTF | |
| multitail | Lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program | |
| mupdf | lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C | |
| namazu | Namazu is a full-text search engine intended for easy use. | |
| nfoview | Simple NFO file viewer in GTK+ 3 | |
| ocrad | An Optical Character Recognition program | |
| odt2txt | extracts the text out of OpenDocument Texts | |
| opensp | A library and a set of tools for validating, parsing and manipulating SGML and XML documents | |
| pdf2djvu | Creates DjVu files from PDF files | |
| pinfo | A hypertext info file viewer | |
| po4a | tools for helping translation of documentation | |
| podofo | A C++ library to work with the PDF file format | |
| poppler | PDF rendering library based on xpdf 3.0 | |
| poppler-data | Encoding data for the poppler PDF rendering library | |
| poppler-qt | Poppler Qt bindings | |
| psiconv | Converts Psion 5(MX) files to more commonly used file formats | |
| psutils | A set of postscript utilities | |
| python2-gtkspell | Python bindings for the gtkspell | |
| rarian | Documentation meta-data library, designed as a replacement for Scrollkeeper. | |
| recode | Converts files between various character sets and usages | |
| sdcv | StarDict Console Version | |
| sgmltools-lite | SGML processing tools (sucessor to the obsolete SGMLtools) | |
| sigil | A WYSIWYG ebook editor | |
| sloccount | Tools for counting physical source lines of code | |
| stardict | International dictionary software | |
| sword | Library for Bible study programs | |
| t1utils | A collection of simple Type 1 font manipulation programs | |
| tesseract | An OCR programm | |
| texi2html | Converts texinfo documents to HTML | |
| texlive-core | TeX Live core distribution | |
| tuxcards | A hierarchical notebook to enter and manage notes and ideas in a structured manner | |
| txt2man | Converts flat ASCII text to man page format | |
| txt2tags | A text formatting and conversion tool. | |
| unpaper | post-processing tool for scanned sheets of paper | |
| unrtf | Command-line program which converts RTF documents to other formats | |
| uudeview | UUDeview helps transmitting & recieving binary files using mail or newsgroups. Includes library files. | |
| wgetpaste | A script that automates pasting to a number of pastebin services | |
| winefish | LaTeX editor based on Bluefish with auto-completion and syntax highlighting | |
| wv | MSWord library can load and parse Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats | |
| wv2 | MSWord 9,8,7,6 formats parser | |
| xchm | A cross-platform GUI front-end to chmlib | |
| xiphos | Bible study tool for GTK+ | |
| xml2 | XML/Unix Processing Tools to convert XML and HTML to and from a line-oriented format more amenable to processing by classic Unix pipeline processing tools | |
| xmldiff | A python tool that figures out the differences between two similar XML files, in the same way the diff utility does it | |
| xmlstarlet | A set of tools to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents | |
| xmlto | Convert xml to many other formats | |
| xournal | Notetaking and sketching application | |
| xpdf | Viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files | |
| xpdf-arabic | Encoding information to use specific character sets in Xpdf; does not include fonts | |
| xpdf-chinese-simplified | Encoding information to use specific character sets in Xpdf; does not include fonts | |
| xpdf-chinese-traditional | Encoding information to use specific character sets in Xpdf; does not include fonts | |
| xpdf-cyrillic | Encoding information to use specific character sets in Xpdf; does not include fonts | |
| xpdf-greek | Encoding information to use specific character sets in Xpdf; does not include fonts | |
| xpdf-hebrew | Encoding information to use specific character sets in Xpdf; does not include fonts | |
| xpdf-japanese | Encoding information to use specific character sets in Xpdf; does not include fonts | |
| xpdf-korean | Encoding information to use specific character sets in Xpdf; does not include fonts | |
| xpdf-latin2 | Encoding information to use specific character sets in Xpdf; does not include fonts | |
| xpdf-thai | Encoding information to use specific character sets in Xpdf; does not include fonts | |
| xpdf-turkish | Encoding information to use specific character sets in Xpdf; does not include fonts | |
| yagf | QT4-based GUI for Cuneiform OCR | |
| yelp-tools | Tools for creating Yelp documentation | |
| zathura | a document viewer | |
| zathura-djvu | Adds DjVu support to zathura by using the djvulibre library | |
| zathura-pdf-poppler | Adds pdf support to zathura by using the poppler engine | |
| zathura-ps | Adds ps support to zathura by using the libspectre library |