Alternatives

Papermerge alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Papermerge

Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives (Scanned Documents)

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#1

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 144Trust 98Excellent 100

A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents

42K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
#2

Mayan EDMS

Similarity 137Trust 81Strong 81

Free Open Source Document Management System (mirror, no pull request or issues)

814 starsMay 23, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add mayan-edms/Mayan-EDMS
#3

Docspell

Similarity 131Trust 93Excellent 99

Assist in organizing your piles of documents, resulting from scanners, e-mails and other sources with miminal effort.

2.3K starsMay 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingElmOCR
$ npx skills add eikek/docspell
#4

Open Paperless

Similarity 128Trust 78Promising 69

Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents (acquired by Mayan EDMS)

2.6K starsDec 10, 2018 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add zhoubear/open-paperless
#5

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 128Trust 98Excellent 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
#6

MinerU

Similarity 128Trust 94Excellent 100

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
#7

PaddleOCR

Similarity 126Trust 98Excellent 100

Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports 100+ languages.

83K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
#8

PyMuPDF

Similarity 126Trust 97Excellent 100

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

10K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pymupdf/PyMuPDF
#9

Umi OCR

Similarity 126Trust 93Excellent 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
#10

EasyOCR

Similarity 125Trust 93Excellent 100

Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.

30K starsDec 5, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add JaidedAI/EasyOCR
#11

Pdf Craft

Similarity 125Trust 96Excellent 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
#12

Dolphin

Similarity 125Trust 91Excellent 100

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

9.0K starsMar 25, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add bytedance/Dolphin
#13

Manga Image Translator

Similarity 124Trust 98Excellent 100

Translate manga/image 一键翻译各类图片内文字 https://cotrans.touhou.ai/ (no longer working)

10K starsMay 24, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add zyddnys/manga-image-translator
#14

X AnyLabeling

Similarity 124Trust 97Excellent 100

Effortless data labeling with AI support from Segment Anything and other awesome models.

9.5K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add CVHub520/X-AnyLabeling
#15

Ddddocr

Similarity 124Trust 92Excellent 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

Chandra

Similarity 124Trust 94Excellent 100

OCR model that handles complex tables, forms, handwriting with full layout.

11K starsApr 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add datalab-to/chandra

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