Group: OpenOfficeExtensions/List
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The official OpenOffice.org extensions repository offers many addons to extend OpenOffice.org with additional features.
While OpenOffice.org is free software, it has a policy of also listing proprietary extensions in with the free software ones.
This is the start of an all-free-software list of extensions for OpenOffice.org. Please see Group:OpenOfficeExtensions for more information about the listing, how use it, and how to contribute.
Extensions are listed by alphabetically by name.
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| Name | Description | License | Version of the extension when it was reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| AddPics | AddPics creates a text document from pictures of scanned pages with the correct page orientation (portrait or landscape) for each page of document. | LGPLv3 | 2.3.1 |
| Afrikaans spell checker | Afrikaans spell checker | LGPLv3 | 2008.07.01 |
| AutoText - EmotiKons | Provides the EmotiKons icon set as autotext in OpenOffice.org Writer. | LGPLv2.1 | 0.1.0 |
| AutoTextList2 | List AutoText entries to a writer document | GPLv2+ | 2.0.3 |
| Barcode | Generate UPC-A, EAN-13, ISBN and JAN barcodes in Draw | GPLv3+ | 1.3.1 |
| ca_hyph | Catalan hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org / Diccionari català de partició de mots per a OpenOffice.org
(Note: Lacks a copy of the license in the package.) |
GPLv3 | 0.9.3 |
| Calc2Dokuwiki | Export selected ranges of cells to formated tables in Dokuwiki syntax. | CeCILL version 2 & LGPLv2.1+ | Extension does not appear to contain version info; released September 2007 |
| CoGrOO - Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker | Extension to add Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker capabilities to OpenOffice.org 3. | LPGLv3 | 3.0.5 |
| Compose Special Characters | Extension for Writer and Calc. It lets you type two or three characters and use a keyboard shortcut to convert them into a single accented or special character. (Note: Whole package is under LGPLv2.1 -- however, all the files with individual license notices (modCode, modCustomConstants), are under LGPLv2.1 or later) | LGPLv2.1 | 2.0.5 |
| Creative Commons Licensing | Provides the ability to select and embed a Creative Commons license in Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw documents. It supports searching and adding free to use images from Flickr, Open Clip Art and Wikimedia Commons. Note that this is a test version and may cause problems. | LGPLv2.1 | 0.7.0-beta-1 |
| DataForm | This extension generates a data input form in Calc, similar to the Data/Form feature in Excel. | GPLv2 | 1.0.0 |
| FastMailMerge | Improved Mail Merge functionality. (contains a copy of LGPLv3 , not v2.1) | LGPLv2.1+ | 1.1.2 |
| MultiDiff | Simultaneously issue OpenOffice.org documents in several formats | LGPLv2.1+ | 1.2.1 |
| Numbertext | Spreadsheet functions for number to number name and currency name conversion proposed for OpenFormula standard. | Dual LGPL/BSD | 0.9 |
| LanguageTool | Language checker for English, German, Polish, Dutch, and other languages. | LGPL, with some libraries under the Common Public License v1.0 and others Apache License 2.0 and still other libraries under a modified BSD license. | 1.0.0 |
| Linguist | Provides a way for users to create a list of new candidate words to add to the existing spellcheck dictionary for their language. | GPLv3 | 1.4.0 |
| Magneta Lorem Ipsum Generator | Generates lorum ipsum text. 22 translations. | Includes copy of GPLv3 but actual license grant doesn't limit to any particular version | 1.6.0 |
| OOoSVN | Provide version control for OpenOffice.org documents (OpenDocument and *.sx*) via Subversion. | GPLv3 | 0.4.0-beta |
| OpenCards | Flashcard creator for Impress | Original BSD license | 1.5.1 |
| OpenOffice.org Base Switchboard | Generates a Switchboard/Main Menu interface to access Base forms and reports. | GPLv3 | 1.2.0 |
| Pagination | A little macro that adds a 'Insert / Page number...' dialog to writer. It eases the way you can add page numbers to a document. | LGPLv2.1+ | 1.3.9 |
| Quoots | Adds QuickFind & QuickEdit features to OpenOffice | GPL (includes copy of GPLv2 but license grant in README doesn't limit to any particular GPL version) | 0.8.2 |
| Sun PDF Importer | The PDF Import Extension allows you to import and modify PDF documents. Best results with 100% layout accuracy can be achieved with the "PDF/ODF hybrid file" format, which this extension also enables. A hybrid PDF/ODF file is a PDF file that contains an embedded ODF source file. Hybrid PDF/ODF files will be opened in OpenOffice.org as an ODF file without any layout changes. | LGPLv3 | 1.0.1 |
| Sun Presentation Minimizer | The Sun Presentation Minimizer is used to reduce the file size of the current presentation. Images will be compressed, and data that is no longer needed will be removed. | LGPLv3 | 1.0.1 |
| Sun Report Builder | Create database reports from HSQL, Oracle, or many other database types. | LGPLv3 | 1.2.0 |
| Sun Wiki Publisher | Create articles on MediaWiki servers without knowing the syntax of the MediaWiki markup language. Publish your new and existing documents transparently with from Writer to a wiki page. | LGPLv3 | 1.1 |
| SVG Import | Import SVG into OpenOffice | GPLv3+ | 1.2.2 |
| Template Changer | Improves assignment of templates to documents. | LGPLv3+ | 1.2.5 |
| Text Effects | Extension for Writer. It can make colorful text, draw a few simple shapes and Tux, change brightness of text, make anagrams, make inversed text, uneven text, remapped text. | GPLv3 | 1.0.2 |
| Writer's Tools | Writer's Tools is a set of utilities designed to help OpenOffice.org users perform a wide range of tasks. Using Writer's Tools, you can back up documents, look up and translate words and phrases, manage text snippets, and keep tabs on document statistics. | GPL (includes copy of GPLv2 but license grant in README doesn't limit to any particular GPL version) | 1.7.3 |
| ExtensionName | <description goes here> | <licensing info goes here> | <reviewed version info here> |
