Alternatives

Hexapdf alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Hexapdf

Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby

98
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#1

Asciidoctor Pdf

Similarity 144Trust 95Excellent 100

:page_with_curl: Asciidoctor PDF: A native PDF converter for AsciiDoc based on Asciidoctor and Prawn, written entirely in Ruby.

1.2K starsMay 29, 2026 pushdocument-processingRubyPDF
$ npx skills add asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf
#2

Prawn

Similarity 137Trust 87Excellent 97

Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby

4.8K starsApr 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingRubyPDF
$ npx skills add prawnpdf/prawn
#3

PDFPatcher

Similarity 134Trust 92Excellent 100

PDF补丁丁——PDF工具箱,可以编辑书签、剪裁旋转页面、解除限制、提取或合并文档,探查文档结构,提取图片、转成图片等等

12K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#PDF
$ npx skills add wmjordan/PDFPatcher
#4

Kramdown

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 89

kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.

1.8K starsJan 31, 2026 pushdocument-processingRubyPDF
$ npx skills add gettalong/kramdown
#5

TCPDF

Similarity 132Trust 91Excellent 100

Deprecated: PHP PDF library, superseded by tc-lib-pdf (https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-pdf)

4.5K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPHPPDF
$ npx skills add tecnickcom/TCPDF
#6

OpenPDF

Similarity 132Trust 91Excellent 100

OpenPDF is an open-source Java library for creating, editing, rendering, and encrypting PDF documents, as well as generating PDFs from HTML. It is licensed under the LGPL and MPL.

4.3K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaPDF
$ npx skills add LibrePDF/OpenPDF
#7

Combine Pdf

Similarity 131Trust 77Promising 55

A Pure ruby library to merge PDF files, number pages and maybe more...

784 starsApr 8, 2025 pushdocument-processingRubyPDF
$ npx skills add boazsegev/combine_pdf
#8

Pikepdf

Similarity 131Trust 92Excellent 100

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

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

Unipdf

Similarity 131Trust 89Excellent 100

Golang PDF library for creating and processing PDF files (pure go)

3.1K starsMay 27, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoPDF
$ npx skills add unidoc/unipdf
#10

Tinypdf

Similarity 130Trust 91Excellent 100

Minimal PDF creation library. <400 LOC, zero dependencies, makes real PDFs.

1.8K starsMay 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Lulzx/tinypdf
#11

Tc Lib Pdf

Similarity 130Trust 89Excellent 99

PHP PDF Library (TCPDF)

1.8K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPHPPDF
$ npx skills add tecnickcom/tc-lib-pdf
#12

Dompdf.Js

Similarity 129Trust 93Excellent 96

Convert HTML to a multi-thousand-page vector PDF with a single line of frontend code

1.2K starsMay 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add lmn1919/dompdf.js
#13

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 128Trust 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
#14

Pdfx

Similarity 128Trust 87Excellent 97

A React PDF component library with pre-built, themeable components and a CLI for seamless PDF document creation.

1.1K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add akii09/pdfx
#15

Stirling PDF

Similarity 127Trust 91Excellent 100

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

81K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
#16

React Pdf

Similarity 127Trust 95Excellent 100

📄 Create PDF files using React

17K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add diegomura/react-pdf

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