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Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
152K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
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Pdf Inspector
Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions.
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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#3
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#4
A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser
9.9K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add run-llama/liteparse#5
Get your documents ready for gen AI
61K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling#6
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#7
🪐 Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.
15K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingKotlinPDF
$ npx skills add iamgio/quarkdown#8
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#9
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#10
Rust 程序设计语言（2024 edition 施工完毕）
5.5K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingMarkdownPDF
$ npx skills add KaiserY/trpl-zh-cn#11
Sketch and take handwritten notes.
11K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add flxzt/rnote#12
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#13
A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF
2.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pikepdf/pikepdf#14
#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#15
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#16
A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents
42K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
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