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Top 23 Text Open-Source Projects
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It might not for GPLv3: it tries to sidestep it by explicitly voiding any clauses placing additional restrictions, but Pandoc is using GPLv2
https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/9500/is-apple...
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/#license
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nanoid's release.yml, updated June 18:
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PhoneNumberKit
A Swift framework for parsing, formatting and validating international phone numbers. Inspired by Google's libphonenumber.
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https://kroki.io/#try
Shout out to Kroki, which offers Mermaid and many other text-based diagramming formats.
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ZSSRichTextEditor
A beautiful rich text WYSIWYG editor for iOS with a syntax highlighted source view
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Twitter Text Obj
Twitter Text Libraries. This code is used at Twitter to tokenize and parse text to meet the expectations for what can be used on the platform.
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i18n-node
Lightweight simple translation module for node.js / express.js with dynamic json storage. Uses common __('...') syntax in app and templates.
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TwitterTextEditor
A standalone, flexible API that provides a full-featured rich text editor for iOS applications.
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aeneas
aeneas is a Python/C library and a set of tools to automagically synchronize audio and text (aka forced alignment)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Text projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | pandoc | 46,521 |
| 2 | nanoid | 27,003 |
| 3 | flexsearch | 13,808 |
| 4 | git-history | 13,684 |
| 5 | YYText | 8,873 |
| 6 | DTCoreText | 6,390 |
| 7 | PhoneNumberKit | 5,387 |
| 8 | kroki | 4,352 |
| 9 | StegCloak | 3,898 |
| 10 | fitty | 3,855 |
| 11 | ZSSRichTextEditor | 3,781 |
| 12 | TextRecognitionDataGenerator | 3,682 |
| 13 | textillate | 3,658 |
| 14 | imtui | 3,629 |
| 15 | BonMot | 3,552 |
| 16 | Hunyuan3D-1 | 3,487 |
| 17 | iconv-lite | 3,180 |
| 18 | SwiftRichString | 3,146 |
| 19 | Twitter Text Obj | 3,137 |
| 20 | i18n-node | 3,114 |
| 21 | Blotter | 3,077 |
| 22 | TwitterTextEditor | 2,994 |
| 23 | aeneas | 2,870 |
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