Alternatives

LiLT alternatives for AI agents.

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

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LiLT

Official PyTorch implementation of LiLT: A Simple yet Effective Language-Independent Layout Transformer for Structured Document Understanding (ACL 2022)

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#1

Donut

Similarity 142Trust 88Strong 79

Official Implementation of OCR-free Document Understanding Transformer (Donut) and Synthetic Document Generator (SynthDoG), ECCV 2022

6.9K starsJul 11, 2024 pushdocument-processingPythonDocument AI
$ npx skills add clovaai/donut
#2

Deepdoctection

Similarity 131Trust 89Excellent 100

A Repo For Document AI

3.2K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add deepdoctection/deepdoctection
#3

Unilm

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

Large-scale Self-supervised Pre-training Across Tasks, Languages, and Modalities

22K starsJan 23, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonDocument AI
$ npx skills add microsoft/unilm
#4

Dolphin

Similarity 125Trust 91Excellent 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
#5

Rpaframework

Similarity 123Trust 96Excellent 100

Collection of open-source libraries and tools for Robotic Process Automation (RPA), designed to be used with both Robot Framework and Python

1.5K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add robocorp/rpaframework
#6

Retain Pdf

Similarity 121Trust 92Excellent 100

在保留版面、公式与结构的前提下进行 PDF 翻译,适用于科研与技术文档

2.0K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonDocument AI
$ npx skills add wxyhgk/retain-pdf
#7

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 120Trust 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
#8

Markitdown

Similarity 120Trust 96Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

156K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#9

MinerU

Similarity 120Trust 94Excellent 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
#10

Umi OCR

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

OCR software, free and offline. 开源、免费的离线OCR软件。支持截屏/批量导入图片,PDF文档识别,排除水印/页眉页脚,扫描/生成二维码。内置多国语言库。

45K starsNov 20, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add hiroi-sora/Umi-OCR
#11

Ddddocr

Similarity 118Trust 92Excellent 100

带带弟弟 通用验证码识别OCR pypi版

14K starsMar 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add sml2h3/ddddocr
#12

Chandra

Similarity 118Trust 94Excellent 100

OCR model that handles complex tables, forms, handwriting with full layout.

11K starsApr 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add datalab-to/chandra
#13

Pdfplumber

Similarity 118Trust 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
#14

Pypdf

Similarity 118Trust 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
#15

Pdf Craft

Similarity 117Trust 96Excellent 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
#16

Pdfarranger

Similarity 117Trust 96Excellent 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

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