Non-free/Non-standard File Format Conversion
- rtfx
(Tool for converting a RTF file into a generic XML file)
- hd2u (Convert
M$ text files to Un*x files, by changing the line-delimiter from
'cr/lf' to 'lf'. hd2u can also convert files to Macintosh format 'lf'.)
- dos2unix
(Convert M$ text files to Un*x files, by changing the line-delimiter from
'cr/lf' to 'lf')
- wvWare (Convert M$ Word files to:
plain text, HTML, RTF, PS, PDF, WML, Abiword, ...)
(cvs)
(ml)
- doc2pdf
(Convert M$ Word files to PDF. License:
Doc2pdf License)
(cvs)
(ml)
- ppthtml (Convert
M$ PowerPoint files to HTML)
- abcm2ps
(Tool to convert ABC
music sheet notation into PostScript format)
- xlHTML (Convert M$ Excel
files to HTML or XML)
- ms-sys (Tool to create M$ OS
compatible boot records. This is useful when using GNU/Linux to restore a backup
of a M$ OS installation.)
- dbf (Tool
to convert dBase v3 files to comma-separated files)
(cvs)
- pxlib
(C Library and application to read/write Paradox database files)
(cvs)
- MDB Tools (Project to
document the M$ Access RDBMS file format, and create a set of tools to
export the schema and data to other RDBMS like PostgreSQL and MySQL.)
(cvs)
(ml)
- ol2mbox (Set of
libraries and applications to convert M$ Outlook mailbox files into the Mbox format)
(ml)
- mb2md
(Perl script to convert 'Mbox' formatted mailboxes to the 'Maildir' format)
- cyrus2courier
(Tool to convert Cyrus-Imap formatted mailboxes to the Courier Maildir
format. License: BSD-style)
- Oggasm (Perl script to convert
a collection of MP3 files into Ogg Vorbis format using oggenc and mpg321)
(cvs)
- mp32ogg (Perl script to convert
MP3 files to Ogg Vorbis files. It retains the ID3 tag information and bitrate.)
-
Transcode
(Collection of modular console tools for video and audio frame
transformations, with support for many different video file formats)
(ml)
- ffmpeg2theora
(Tool for converting MPEG type files to Ogg Theora files)
- hymn
(Decryption tool for the iTun*s AAC/m4p audio files)
(forums)
- vdxtosvg (XSLT stylesheet for
translating Visio-VDX files into the SVG format. Inactive project.)
(cvs)
- DGNlib (C++ library to read
the Microstati*n ".dgn" CAD file format. DGNlib is part of the
OGR library, which in turn
is part of the GDAL library.
License: BSD-style)
- ShapeTools
(Convert "Arc\Info Export" files, aka ".E00", to ESRI ShapeFile files)
- lib3ds (C++ library to read and
write the 3D Studi* ".3ds" file format. Inactive project. License: GPL)
(ml)
- gif2png
(Converts GIF files to PNG files)
- TNEF (Unpacks M$ TNEF
MIME attachments to seperate files)
(cvs)
- ripOLE (Library
and application to get the attachments from M$ OLE2 data files.
License: BSD-style)
- CHM
(Tools to read and write CHM files which are a compressed archive
file formats used on M$ systems)
(chmlib Library
for reading CHM files)
(hhm HTML Help Maker.
M$ tool for creating ITS files.)
- CSCCS (Revision control system,
which is compatible with the non-free SCCS revision control system)
(cvs)
(ml)
- getwmail
(Perl script to retrieve email from webmail services)
- lotus2mail
(Perl script which reformats mail forwarded from a Lotus N*tes account
to be more RFC 822 compliant)
- nrg2iso
(Tool to extract the ISO 9660 CD image data from Ner* ".nrg" files)