LosslessCut
Mikael Finstad
Cut and join video without re-encoding — fast and with no quality loss, for drone footage, inspections and recordings.
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LyX
LyX team
A graphical LaTeX-based document editor — theses, papers and technical reports with equations.
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Meld
GNOME / Meld project
Visual two- and three-way diff and merge for files and folders, with Git and version-control support.
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Mermaid
Mermaid open-source project
Diagrams from text — flowcharts, Gantt, sequence and state charts written as code and rendered in Markdown, GitHub and docs.
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Microsoft
A set of Windows utilities — on-screen OCR, screen ruler, bulk rename, window layouts and colour picker.
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NanaZip
M2-Team
A modern 7-Zip derivative for Windows — integrates with the Windows 11 context menu and adds formats.
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Ben Olden-Cooligan
Scan documents straight to searchable PDF with built-in OCR — delivery notes, minutes and marked-up drawings from site.
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dynobo
A screenshot tool that captures text instead of images — mark an area and the text goes to the clipboard.
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Notepad++
Don Ho
A light text and code editor for Windows — input files for analysis programs, data files and scripts.
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OBS Project
Screen recording and streaming — software tutorials, model walkthroughs and recorded lectures in high quality.
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Obsidian
A local knowledge base of Markdown files with links and a graph view — for project notes, design decisions and lessons learned.
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OCRmyPDF
OCRmyPDF project
Adds a searchable text layer to scanned PDFs — old reports, standards and drawings become searchable.
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KDE
KDE’s document viewer — read and annotate PDFs with highlights and notes, and verify digital signatures.
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ONLYOFFICE
An open office suite with high docx, xlsx and pptx fidelity, plus a PDF and form editor — for exchanging files with Microsoft Office users.
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OpenBoard
OpenBoard (Canton of Geneva education department)
Interactive whiteboard for teaching and presentations — write on screen with a pen or mouse, for classrooms and lectures.
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OpenRefine
Clean up messy data tables — duplicates, inconsistent names, splitting columns and conversions.
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Paint.NET
dotPDN
A fast, simple image editor for Windows with layers — for cropping, marking up and preparing photos and figures for reports.
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Pandoc
John MacFarlane
A universal document converter — Markdown, Word, LaTeX, HTML and PDF, so a report is written once and exported anywhere.
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PDF Arranger
PDF Arranger project
Merge, split, rotate, crop and reorder PDF pages by drag and drop — for assembling calc packages, submittals and drawing sets.
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Jakub Melka
An open PDF editor and viewer — annotations, page organising, signing, redaction, plus a tool to compare document versions.
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PDFsam Basic
Sober Lemur
Split, merge, rotate and extract PDF pages — for drawing sets, specifications and submissions.
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PeaZip
Giorgio Tani
Open, create and encrypt archives in 200+ formats, including splitting large model files.
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PlantUML
PlantUML project
Diagrams from text — sequence, state, component and Gantt diagrams written as code and kept under version control.
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QOwnNotes
QOwnNotes project
Markdown notes as plain text files, with Nextcloud sync, to-do lists and encryption.
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