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Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
154K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdownAlternatives
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Markpdfdown
A high-quality PDF to Markdown tool based on large language model visual recognition. 一款基于大模型视觉识别的高质量PDF转Markdown工具
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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#3
borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.
3.6K starsMay 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add borb-pdf/borb#4
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#5
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#6
Get your documents ready for gen AI
62K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling#7
👏极客时间 pdf & markdown 文档
1.3K starsDec 26, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add uaxe/geektime-docs#8
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#9
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#10
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#11
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#12
Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
7.0K starsMar 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pdfminer/pdfminer.six#13
Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions.
1.5K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add firecrawl/pdf-inspector#14
A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF
2.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pikepdf/pikepdf#15
A web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs
1.8K starsMay 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add camelot-dev/excalibur#16
Thin wrapper for "pandoc" (MIT)
1.1K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
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