Alternatives

Rnote alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Rnote

Sketch and take handwritten notes.

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#1

Stirling PDF

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 100

#1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere

81K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
#2

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 100

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

42K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
#3

Bentopdf

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

The Privacy First PDF Toolkit

14K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add alam00000/bentopdf
#4

Laravel Dompdf

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 98

A DOMPDF Wrapper for Laravel

7.3K starsMar 31, 2026 pushdocument-processingPHPPDF
$ npx skills add barryvdh/laravel-dompdf
#5

Pdfarranger

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 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
#6

Maker.Js

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

πŸ“βš™ 2D vector line drawing and shape modeling for CNC and laser cutters.

2.0K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/maker.js
#7

Pdf

Similarity 122Trust 100Excellent 100

Rust library to read, manipulate and write PDF files.

1.7K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add pdf-rs/pdf
#8

Rust Skia

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 98

Rust Bindings for the Skia Graphics Library

1.8K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add rust-skia/rust-skia
#9

Pdf Inspector

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 98

Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions.

1.4K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add firecrawl/pdf-inspector
#10

MinerU

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 100

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

67K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU
#11

Docling

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

61K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#12

Siyuan

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 100

A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.

44K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add siyuan-note/siyuan
#13

Koreader

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices

27K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdocument-processingLuaPDF
$ npx skills add koreader/koreader
#14

Koodo Reader

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

A modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and Web

27K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add koodo-reader/koodo-reader
#15

Readest

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface to elevate your reading experience.

21K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add readest/readest
#16

Parsr

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

Transforms PDF, Documents and Images into Enriched Structured Data

6.2K starsMar 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add axa-group/Parsr

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