Alternatives

Markitdown alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Markitdown

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

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#1

Docling

Similarity 135Trust 100Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

61K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#2

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 135Trust 100Excellent 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
#3

Pypdf

Similarity 133Trust 100Excellent 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
#4

Dolphin

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 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

Pdf Craft

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 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
#6

Pdfarranger

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 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
#7

Borb

Similarity 131Trust 100Excellent 100

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
#8

Pikepdf

Similarity 130Trust 100Excellent 100

A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF

2.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pikepdf/pikepdf
#9

Quarkdown

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

🪐 Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.

15K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingKotlinPDF
$ npx skills add iamgio/quarkdown
#10

MinerU

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

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

67K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU
#11

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

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

42K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
#12

Trpl Zh Cn

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

Rust 程序设计语言(2024 edition 施工完毕)

5.5K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingMarkdownPDF
$ npx skills add KaiserY/trpl-zh-cn
#13

PyMuPDF

Similarity 125Trust 100Excellent 100

PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.

10.0K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pymupdf/PyMuPDF
#14

Kcc

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

KCC (a.k.a. Kindle Comic Converter) is a comic and manga converter for ebook readers.

5.2K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add ciromattia/kcc
#15

Malicious Pdf

Similarity 123Trust 100Excellent 100

💀 Generate malicious PDF test files for testing phone-home callbacks, SSRF, XSS, NTLM credential theft, and data exfiltration in PDF viewers, converters, and web applications. Can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh

4.0K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jonaslejon/malicious-pdf
#16

Onefilellm

Similarity 122Trust 100Excellent 100

Specify a github or local repo, github pull request, arXiv or Sci-Hub paper, Youtube transcript or documentation URL on the web and scrape into a text file and clipboard for easier LLM ingestion

2.0K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jimmc414/onefilellm

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