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Pdfsyntax alternatives for AI agents.

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Pdfsyntax

A Python library to inspect and modify the internal structure of a PDF file

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MinerU

Similarity 134Trust 94Excellent 100

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

68K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU
#2

Dolphin

Similarity 131Trust 90Excellent 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
#3

Pdfminer.Six

Similarity 130Trust 90Excellent 100

Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF

7.0K starsMar 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pdfminer/pdfminer.six
#4

Borb

Similarity 129Trust 89Excellent 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
#5

PyPDFForm

Similarity 128Trust 91Excellent 100

:fire: The Python library & CLI for PDF forms.

1.2K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add chinapandaman/PyPDFForm
#6

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 126Trust 98Excellent 100

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

42K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
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OCRmyPDF

Similarity 126Trust 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
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Text Extract API

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 88

Document (PDF, Word, PPTX ...) extraction and parse API using state of the art modern OCRs + Ollama supported models. Anonymize documents. Remove PII. Convert any document or picture to structured JSON or Markdown

3.1K starsDec 8, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add CatchTheTornado/text-extract-api
#9

Gotenberg

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

A developer-friendly API for converting many document formats into PDF files, and more!

12K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoPDF
$ npx skills add gotenberg/gotenberg
#10

QuestPDF

Similarity 126Trust 92Excellent 100

QuestPDF is a modern library for PDF document generation. Its fluent C# API lets you design complex layouts with clean, readable code. Create documents using a flexible, component-based approach.

14K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#PDF
$ npx skills add QuestPDF/QuestPDF
#11

Markitdown

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

154K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#12

MegaParse

Similarity 126Trust 86Strong 79

File Parser optimised for LLM Ingestion with no loss 🧠 Parse PDFs, Docx, PPTx in a format that is ideal for LLMs.

7.4K starsFeb 21, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add QuivrHQ/MegaParse
#13

Pdfium Lib

Similarity 125Trust 89Excellent 92

PDFium - Project to compile PDFium library to multiple platforms.

1.1K starsJan 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add paulocoutinhox/pdfium-lib
#14

Docling

Similarity 125Trust 92Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

62K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#15

Pdfcpu

Similarity 125Trust 92Excellent 100

PDF tooling for Go and the command line.

8.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoPDF
$ npx skills add pdfcpu/pdfcpu
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PyMuPDF

Similarity 124Trust 98Excellent 100

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

10K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pymupdf/PyMuPDF

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