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#1

Markitdown

Similarity 142Trust 95Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

154K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#2

Pdf Craft

Similarity 139Trust 97Excellent 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
#3

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 134Trust 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
#4

Pdfplumber

Similarity 132Trust 94Excellent 100

Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.

10K starsJan 28, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jsvine/pdfplumber
#5

Pypdf

Similarity 132Trust 94Excellent 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
#6

Pdfarranger

Similarity 131Trust 97Excellent 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
#7

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
#8

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
#9

Pikepdf

Similarity 129Trust 93Excellent 100

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

2.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pikepdf/pikepdf
#10

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
#11

Excalibur

Similarity 129Trust 93Excellent 100

A web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs

1.8K starsMay 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add camelot-dev/excalibur
#12

Kokoro Tts

Similarity 127Trust 91Excellent 97

A CLI text-to-speech tool using the Kokoro model, supporting multiple languages, voices (with blending), and various input formats including EPUB books and PDF documents.

1.6K starsApr 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add nazdridoy/kokoro-tts
#13

Ebook GPT Translator

Similarity 127Trust 89Excellent 98

Enjoy reading with your favorite style.

1.7K starsMar 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jesselau76/ebook-GPT-translator
#14

Markpdfdown

Similarity 127Trust 91Excellent 94

A high-quality PDF to Markdown tool based on large language model visual recognition. 一款基于大模型视觉识别的高质量PDF转Markdown工具

1.8K starsJan 25, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add MarkPDFdown/markpdfdown
#15

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
#16

Pdftotext

Similarity 126Trust 89Excellent 96

Simple PDF text extraction

1.1K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jalan/pdftotext

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