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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/OCRmyPDFAlternatives
Pdfplumber alternatives for AI agents.
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Pdfplumber
Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
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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
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#4
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#5
Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
7.0K starsMar 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pdfminer/pdfminer.six#6
A web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs
1.8K starsMay 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add camelot-dev/excalibur#7
Enjoy reading with your favorite style.
1.7K starsMar 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jesselau76/ebook-GPT-translator#8
Simple PDF text extraction
1.1K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jalan/pdftotext#9
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
154K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown#10
File Parser optimised for LLM Ingestion with no loss 🧠 Parse PDFs, Docx, PPTx in a format that is ideal for LLMs.
7.4K starsFeb 21, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add QuivrHQ/MegaParse#11
👏极客时间 pdf & markdown 文档
1.3K starsDec 26, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add uaxe/geektime-docs#12
pyHanko: sign and stamp PDF files
733 starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add MatthiasValvekens/pyHanko#13
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#14
Use a text editor. Make a PDF.
591 starsJun 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add rst2pdf/rst2pdf#15
Convert your vector images
933 starsApr 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add Kozea/CairoSVG#16
A python module that wraps the pdftoppm utility to convert PDF to PIL Image object
2.0K starsJul 23, 2024 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add Belval/pdf2imageHow to choose
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