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PyHanko alternatives for AI agents.

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PyHanko

pyHanko: sign and stamp PDF files

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#1

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 142Trust 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
#2

Pdfplumber

Similarity 140Trust 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
#3

Pdf Craft

Similarity 139Trust 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
#4

Pdfarranger

Similarity 139Trust 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
#5

Pdfminer.Six

Similarity 139Trust 91Excellent 100

Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF

7.0K starsMar 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pdfminer/pdfminer.six
#6

Excalibur

Similarity 136Trust 92Excellent 100

A web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs

1.8K starsMay 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add camelot-dev/excalibur
#7

Ebook GPT Translator

Similarity 135Trust 89Excellent 98

Enjoy reading with your favorite style.

1.7K starsMar 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jesselau76/ebook-GPT-translator
#8

Pdftotext

Similarity 134Trust 89Excellent 96

Simple PDF text extraction

1.1K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jalan/pdftotext
#9

Markitdown

Similarity 134Trust 96Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

154K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#10

MegaParse

Similarity 134Trust 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
#11

Geektime Docs

Similarity 132Trust 86Excellent 87

👏极客时间 pdf & markdown 文档

1.3K starsDec 26, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add uaxe/geektime-docs
#12

Pypdf

Similarity 132Trust 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
#13

Dolphin

Similarity 131Trust 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
#14

Core

Similarity 130Trust 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
#15

Tabula Py

Similarity 130Trust 85Strong 74

Simple wrapper of tabula-java: extract table from PDF into pandas DataFrame

2.3K starsDec 5, 2024 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add chezou/tabula-py
#16

Rst2pdf

Similarity 130Trust 86Excellent 85

Use a text editor. Make a PDF.

591 starsJun 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add rst2pdf/rst2pdf

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