Swiss knife of text processing

The project was rewritten from scratch and moved to a new repository. This repository will never receive updates.

Text Pieces is a small tool for quick text transformations such as checksums, encoding, decoding and so on. Written in Vala for GNOME desktop in the hope to be useful.

• Base64 encoding and decoding
• SHA-1, SHA-2 and MD5 checksums
• Prettify and minify JSON
• Convert JSON to YAML and vice versa
• Count lines, symbols and words
• Escape and unescape string, URL and HTML
• Remove leading and trailing whitespaces
• Sort and reverse sort lines
• Reverse lines and whole text
• Extendable with third-party scripts and custom tools

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Click here to install app from Flathub.

Text Pieces can be built with GNOME Builder >= 3.38. Clone this repo and click run button.

Text Pieces has a Flatpak manifest to enable it to be built with Flatpak.

Text Pieces can be built directly via Meson:

git clone https://github.com/liferooter/textpieces
cd textpieces
meson _build
cd _build
meson compile

Next, it can be installed by meson install.

If you use GNOME Builder or Flatpak, dependencies will be installed automatically. If you use pure Meson, dependencies will be:

• vala >= 0.52
• gtk >= 4.2
• gtksourceview >= 5.2
• gio >= 2.50
• gee >= 0.8
• json-glib >= 1.6
• libadwaita >= 1.0
• python >= 3.8
• pyyaml >= 5.4