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Document Parsers List alternatives for AI agents.

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Document Parsers List

A comprehensive list of document parsers, covering PDF-to-text conversion and layout extraction. Each tested for support of tables, equations, handwriting, two-column layouts, and multi-column layouts.

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#1

Unstructured

Similarity 142Trust 93Excellent 100

Convert documents to structured data effortlessly. Unstructured is open-source ETL solution for transforming complex documents into clean, structured formats for language models. Visit our website to learn more about our enterprise grade Platform product for production grade workflows, partitioning, enrichments, chunking and embedding.

15K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingHTMLPDF
$ npx skills add Unstructured-IO/unstructured
#2

Docling

Similarity 135Trust 89Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

63K starsJul 2, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#3

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 128Trust 93Excellent 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

Markitdown

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

156K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#5

MinerU

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

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

68K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU
#6

PyMuPDF

Similarity 126Trust 93Excellent 100

PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.

10K starsJun 29, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pymupdf/PyMuPDF
#7

Liteparse

Similarity 125Trust 91Excellent 100

A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser

10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add run-llama/liteparse
#8

PaddleOCR

Similarity 122Trust 94Excellent 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
#9

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

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

42K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
#10

Koreader

Similarity 119Trust 93Excellent 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 24, 2026 pushdocument-processingLuaPDF
$ npx skills add koreader/koreader
#11

Koodo Reader

Similarity 119Trust 93Excellent 100

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

27K starsJul 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add koodo-reader/koodo-reader
#12

Readest

Similarity 119Trust 93Excellent 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.

22K starsJun 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add readest/readest
#13

Stirling PDF

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 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
#14

Docuseal

Similarity 118Trust 92Excellent 100

Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingRubyPDF
$ npx skills add docusealco/docuseal
#15

Quarkdown

Similarity 118Trust 93Excellent 100

🪐 Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.

16K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingKotlinPDF
$ npx skills add iamgio/quarkdown
#16

React Pdf

Similarity 118Trust 92Excellent 100

📄 Create PDF files using React

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

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