Alternatives

Zpdf alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Zpdf

Zero-copy PDF text extraction library written in Zig. High-performance, memory-mapped parsing with SIMD acceleration.

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#1

MinerU

Similarity 128Trust 94Excellent 100

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

68K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU
#2

Liteparse

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser

10K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add run-llama/liteparse
#3

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
#4

Pdfminer.Six

Similarity 125Trust 91Excellent 100

Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF

7.0K starsMar 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pdfminer/pdfminer.six
#5

Core

Similarity 122Trust 93Excellent 100

A modern PDF library for TypeScript. Parse, modify, and generate PDFs with a clean, intuitive API.

1.7K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add LibPDF-js/core
#6

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 120Trust 98Excellent 100

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

42K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
#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

Koreader

Similarity 120Trust 98Excellent 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 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingLuaPDF
$ npx skills add koreader/koreader
#9

Php Svg Lib

Similarity 120Trust 89Excellent 93

SVG file parsing / rendering library

1.4K starsJan 2, 2026 pushdocument-processingPHPPDF
$ npx skills add dompdf/php-svg-lib
#10

Koodo Reader

Similarity 120Trust 98Excellent 100

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

27K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add koodo-reader/koodo-reader
#11

Markitdown

Similarity 120Trust 96Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

154K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#12

MegaParse

Similarity 120Trust 88Strong 79

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
#13

Readest

Similarity 120Trust 98Excellent 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 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add readest/readest
#14

Docling

Similarity 119Trust 92Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

62K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#15

Stirling PDF

Similarity 119Trust 91Excellent 100

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

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

Unstructured

Similarity 119Trust 98Excellent 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 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingHTMLPDF
$ npx skills add Unstructured-IO/unstructured

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