TUSTEP (Tubingen System of Text Processing Tools) is a free, open source, widely-used toolbox for text processing. It is aimed at scholarly audiences, can work with texts in both latin and non-latin scripts, and is primarily designed for humanites applications. Its modules include data capture, information retrieval, text collation, text analysis, sorting and ordering, rule-based textual manipulation, data export and typesetting. The user manual is only available in German at this time. This tool has been in continuous development since the 1960s.

COCOA was a program and markup language for generating word counts and concordances written in FORTRAN, from the University College Cardiff and the Atlas Computer Laboratory. It produced keyword-in-context concordances and word frequency profiles for texts, and was considered to be a powerful, highly flexible program for punched card computers.

GRIPHOS (General Retrieval and Information Processor for Humanities Oriented Studies) is a historically important suite of programs used extensively within the Museum Computer Network, a shared information management system developed jointly by fifteen New York area museums. Designed by Dr. Jack Heller of New York University's Institute for Computer Research in the Humanities (ICRH) and debuting in 1967, GRIPHOS enabled museums to store, retrieve and apply textual markup to their records.

The General Inquirer is a historically important program for content analysis of textual data originally developed in the 1960s by Philip Stone and his colleagues at the Harvard Laboratory of Social Relations. Though the original release used punched cards, a version the program is available by request, and can be obtained by e-mailing Roger Hurwitz from an academic address. A minimalist web version capable of processing small files is also available. The General Inquirer's homepage is maintained in Philip Stone's memory.

PL/I was an early programming language commonly used for humanities research, developed at a time when most programming languages were not intended to work with strings of text. In addition to direct processing, it was also used to program systems and tools developed specifically for the humanities.

SNAP was a historically important programming language designed specificially for humanists. It used plain-English syntax, and was particularly suited for automating text processing tasks.

PRORA was a historically important set of six interrelated programs for creating computerized concordances, first released in the 1960s. It output on punched cards, could be used for any language represented by the Latin alphabet, and also had functions for generating word lists and annotating texts. Glickman and Staalman desgined PRORA to reduce the requirement for researchers to learn computers to use them in their literary studies.

BIBCON was a key-word-out-of-context system for concordances developed in FORTRAN and available in the 1960s.  It was a modified version of another system, KWIC.

KWIC was an indexing and concordance tool available in the 1960s. Contrary to its name, KWIC functioned as a 'key-word-out-of-context' tool.

The CETA (Centre pour l'Etude de la Traduction Automatique) Parser was a program developed in the 1960s that could automatically reduce Russian sentences to a string of words and provide equivalents for each in French. CETA developed its parser in conjunction with Professor Mel'chuk of Moscow.