Alternatives

Dolphin alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Dolphin

The official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025.

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MinerU

Similarity 159Trust 100Excellent 100

Transforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows.

67K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU
#2

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 143Trust 100Excellent 100

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
#3

Pypdf

Similarity 141Trust 100Excellent 100

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
#4

Pdf Craft

Similarity 140Trust 100Excellent 100

PDF craft can convert PDF files into various other formats. This project will focus on processing PDF files of scanned books.

5.8K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add oomol-lab/pdf-craft
#5

Borb

Similarity 139Trust 100Excellent 100

borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.

3.6K starsMay 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add borb-pdf/borb
#6

Markitdown

Similarity 135Trust 100Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

152K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#7

Liteparse

Similarity 135Trust 100Excellent 100

A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser

9.9K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add run-llama/liteparse
#8

PyMuPDF

Similarity 133Trust 100Excellent 100

PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.

10.0K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pymupdf/PyMuPDF
#9

PdfPig

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

Read and extract text and other content from PDFs in C# (port of PDFBox)

2.5K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#PDF
$ npx skills add UglyToad/PdfPig
#10

Pdfarranger

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.

5.6K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pdfarranger/pdfarranger
#11

Pikepdf

Similarity 130Trust 100Excellent 100

A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF

2.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pikepdf/pikepdf
#12

Retain Pdf

Similarity 130Trust 100Excellent 100

在保留版面、公式与结构的前提下进行 PDF 翻译,适用于科研与技术文档

1.9K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add wxyhgk/retain-pdf
#13

Stirling PDF

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 100

#1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere

81K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
#14

Umi OCR

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 100

OCR software, free and offline. 开源、免费的离线OCR软件。支持截屏/批量导入图片,PDF文档识别,排除水印/页眉页脚,扫描/生成二维码。内置多国语言库。

45K starsNov 20, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add hiroi-sora/Umi-OCR
#15

Ddddocr

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

带带弟弟 通用验证码识别OCR pypi版

14K starsMar 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add sml2h3/ddddocr
#16

Bentopdf

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

The Privacy First PDF Toolkit

14K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add alam00000/bentopdf

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