BRL-CAD : A powerful constructive solid geometry solid modeling system

BRL-CAD is a powerful constructive solid geometry solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, path-tracing for realistic image synthesis, network distributed framebuffer support, and image and signal-processing tools.

• Licenses : BSD Revised, LGPL, Public Domain
• Operating Systems : Unix, Mac OS X, Windows, Cygwin, POSIX, BSD, IRIX, Linux, Solaris
• Implementation : C, C++, PHP, Tcl, Unix Shell

Poppler : PDF rendering library derived from xpdf

Poppler is a PDF rendering library derived from xpdf. It has been enhanced to utilize modern libraries. It also provides basic command line utilities.

• Licenses : GPL
• Operating Systems : Unix, POSIX
• Implementation : C++

pdf2djvu creates DjVu files from PDF files

pdf2djvu creates DjVu files from PDF files. It's able to extract: graphics, text layer, hyperlinks, document outline (bookmarks), and metadata.

• Licenses : GPLv2
• Operating Systems : POSIX, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, FreeBSD
• Implementation : C++

Video Contact Sheet *NIX (vcs for short) : A script that creates a contact sheet (preview) from videos

Video Contact Sheet *NIX (vcs for short) is a script that creates a contact sheet (preview) from videos by taking still captures distributed over the length of the video. The output image contains useful information on the video such as codecs, file size, screen size, frame rate, and length. It requires MPlayer or FFmpeg and ImageMagick. It is confirmed to work on Linux and FreeBSD, and possibly other POSIX/UNIX systems.

• Licenses : LGPL
• Operating Systems : POSIX, Linux, FreeBSD
• Implementation : Unix Shell, bash

Poppler : A PDF rendering library derived from xpdf

Poppler is a PDF rendering library derived from xpdf. It has been enhanced to utilize modern libraries. It also provides basic command line utilities.

• Licenses : GPL
• Operating Systems : Unix, POSIX
• Implementation : C++

Poppler : A PDF rendering library derived from xpdf

Poppler is a PDF rendering library derived from xpdf. It has been enhanced to utilize modern libraries. It also provides basic command line utilities.

• Licenses : GPL
• Operating Systems : Unix, POSIX
• Implementation : C++

pstoedit converts Postscript(TM) and PDF files to other vector graphic formats so that they can be edited graphically

pstoedit converts Postscript(TM) and PDF files to other vector graphic formats so that they can be edited graphically. The formats it can generate include tgif, fig, PDF, gnuplot, DXF, Java Applets, HPGL, WMF, EMF, LaTeX2e, SWF, and many others. pstoedit's framework can be used independantly by other programs.

• Licenses : GPL
• Operating Systems : OS Independent
• Implementation : C++

GOCR : An OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program

GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Joerg Schulenburg started the program, and now leads a team of developers.
GOCR can be used with different front-ends, which makes it very easy to port to different OSes and architectures. It can open many different image formats, and its quality have been improving in a daily basis.

• Licenses : GPL
• Operating Systems : OS Independent
• Implementation : C

Poppler : A PDF rendering library derived from xpdf

Poppler is a PDF rendering library derived from xpdf. It has been enhanced to utilize modern libraries such as freetype and cairo for better rendering. It also provides basic command line utilities.

• Licenses : GPL
• Operating Systems : Unix, POSIX
• Implementation : C

pdf2djvu creates DjVu files from PDF files

pdf2djvu creates DjVu files from PDF files. It's able to extract: graphics, text layer, hyperlinks, document outline (bookmarks), and metadata.

• Licenses : GPLv2
• Operating Systems : POSIX, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, FreeBSD
• Implementation : C++