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#1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere
81K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDFAlternatives
Pdf alternatives for AI agents.
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Simple http microservice that converts Word documents to PDF
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#2
The Privacy First PDF Toolkit
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$ npx skills add alam00000/bentopdf#3
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
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$ npx skills add Zettlr/Zettlr#4
A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents
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$ npx skills add paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx#5
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
34K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF#6
A developer-friendly API for converting many document formats into PDF files, and more!
12K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoPDF
$ npx skills add gotenberg/gotenberg#7
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
156K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown#8
Get your documents ready for gen AI
63K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling#9
Transforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows.
68K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU#10
PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
10K starsJun 29, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pymupdf/PyMuPDF#11
A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
10K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add py-pdf/pypdf#12
A modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and Web
27K starsJul 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add koodo-reader/koodo-reader#13
An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
27K starsJun 24, 2026 pushdocument-processingLuaPDF
$ npx skills add koreader/koreader#14
Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface to elevate your reading experience.
22K starsJun 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add readest/readest#15
🪐 Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.
16K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingKotlinPDF
$ npx skills add iamgio/quarkdown#16
Convert documents to structured data effortlessly. Unstructured is open-source ETL solution for transforming complex documents into clean, structured formats for language models. Visit our website to learn more about our enterprise grade Platform product for production grade workflows, partitioning, enrichments, chunking and embedding.
15K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingHTMLPDF
$ npx skills add Unstructured-IO/unstructuredHow to choose
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