Alternatives

Docspell alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Docspell

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

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#1

Mayan EDMS

Similarity 131Trust 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
#2

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 130Trust 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
#3

Docs

Similarity 130Trust 91Excellent 95

Lightweight document management system packed with all the features you can expect from big expensive solutions

2.6K starsFeb 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add sismics/docs
#4

Papermerge

Similarity 128Trust 88Excellent 88

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

2.9K starsNov 23, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add ciur/papermerge
#5

AdvancedLiterateMachinery

Similarity 122Trust 91Excellent 98

A collection of original, innovative ideas and algorithms towards Advanced Literate Machinery. This project is maintained by the OCR Team in the Language Technology Lab, Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group.

1.8K starsMar 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add AlibabaResearch/AdvancedLiterateMachinery
#6

Docext

Similarity 121Trust 91Excellent 94

An on-premises, OCR-free unstructured data extraction, markdown conversion and benchmarking toolkit. (https://idp-leaderboard.org/)

2.0K starsMar 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add NanoNets/docext
#7

PaddleOCR

Similarity 120Trust 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

ShareX

Similarity 120Trust 98Excellent 100

ShareX is a free and open-source application that enables users to capture or record any area of their screen with a single keystroke. It also supports uploading images, text, and various file types to a wide range of destinations.

38K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#OCR
$ npx skills add ShareX/ShareX
#9

Tesseract

Similarity 120Trust 96Excellent 100

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

75K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add tesseract-ocr/tesseract
#10

Tesseract.Js

Similarity 120Trust 95Excellent 100

Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥

38K starsMay 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add naptha/tesseract.js
#11

Umi OCR

Similarity 120Trust 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
#12

EasyOCR

Similarity 119Trust 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
#13

Pot Desktop

Similarity 119Trust 97Excellent 100

🌈一个跨平台的划词翻译和OCR软件 | A cross-platform software for text translation and recognition.

19K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add pot-app/pot-desktop
#14

Pdf Craft

Similarity 119Trust 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
#15

Easydict

Similarity 119Trust 97Excellent 100

一个简洁优雅的词典翻译 macOS App。开箱即用,支持离线 OCR 识别,支持有道词典,🍎 苹果系统词典,🍎 苹果系统翻译,OpenAI,Gemini,DeepL,Google,Bing,腾讯,百度,阿里,小牛,彩云和火山翻译。A concise and elegant Dictionary and Translator macOS App for looking up words and translating text.

14K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingSwiftOCR
$ npx skills add tisfeng/Easydict
#16

Bisheng

Similarity 119Trust 98Excellent 100

BISHENG is an open LLM devops platform for next generation Enterprise AI applications. Powerful and comprehensive features include: GenAI workflow, RAG, Agent, Unified model management, Evaluation, SFT, Dataset Management, Enterprise-level System Management, Observability and more.

11K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptOCR
$ npx skills add dataelement/bisheng

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