Microsoft Word

Wispro is a desktop voice dictation assistant for Windows that converts natural speech into polished, formatted prose and pastes it into the active application, enabling instant insertion of dictated text.

Lexicon is a free, open-source, local-first writing assistant and distraction-free rich-text editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It provides inline proofreading through the separate LanguageTool engine, while local AI tools handle rewriting, tone adjustment, summarization, and other writing tasks without requiring an account or cloud writing service. Users can review suggestions in a dedicated panel, format drafts with rich text and LaTeX, autosave work, and export it to Markdown, HTML, text, or PDF. The app can download and run a local AI model or use an existing local Ollama server; the editor and proofreading tools work without an AI-model download. It is MIT-licensed, and the repository notes that its Windows builds are unsigned and its macOS build is pre-release and unsigned.

A Visual Studio Code extension for editing Markdown in a document-like interface, with two-way editing, heading support, and table formatting alongside preview.

MarkItDown is a Microsoft Python utility and command-line tool that converts files and office documents into Markdown for use with large language models and text-analysis pipelines. It aims to preserve document structure such as headings, lists, tables, links, and other content rather than produce high-fidelity human-facing document conversions. Its built-in converters handle formats including PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, images, audio, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP files, YouTube URLs, and EPUBs. It can be used through a Python API, command line, Docker, or third-party plugins; optional integrations support OCR with an LLM vision client, Azure Document Intelligence, and Azure Content Understanding, including multimodal conversion and YAML front-matter field extraction. The repository notes that conversion performs I/O with the current process's privileges, so untrusted inputs must be sanitized and the narrowest conversion method should be used.

Google Docs is a web-based word processor developed by Google. It enables users to create, edit, and store documents online with real-time collaborative editing and commenting. Google Docs is part of Google Workspace and integrates with Google Drive for file storage and sharing.