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#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-PDFAlternatives
Pdf2json alternatives for AI agents.
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Pdf2json
converts binary PDF to JSON and text, for server-side PDF processing and command-line use. Zero dependency.
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#2
The Privacy First PDF Toolkit
14K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add alam00000/bentopdf#3
An app to convert images to PDF file!
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$ npx skills add Swati4star/Images-to-PDF#4
PDF补丁丁——PDF工具箱，可以编辑书签、剪裁旋转页面、解除限制、提取或合并文档，探查文档结构，提取图片、转成图片等等
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$ npx skills add wmjordan/PDFPatcher#5
The official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025.
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$ npx skills add bytedance/Dolphin#6
Universal File Online Preview Project based on Spring-Boot
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$ npx skills add kekingcn/kkFileView#7
MIT Deep Learning Book in PDF format (complete and parts) by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville
14K starsFeb 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaPDF
$ npx skills add janishar/mit-deep-learning-book-pdf#8
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#9
PDFsam, a desktop application to split, merge, mix, rotate PDF files and extract pages
4.4K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaPDF
$ npx skills add torakiki/pdfsam#10
✍️ A powerful, all-in-one desktop PDF toolkit to edit, convert, merge, and secure your documents. Built with Electron, Next.js, and Python.
1.2K starsMay 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add DDULDDUCK/every-pdf#11
OpenPDF is an open-source Java library for creating, editing, rendering, and encrypting PDF documents, as well as generating PDFs from HTML. It is licensed under the LGPL and MPL.
4.3K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaPDF
$ npx skills add LibrePDF/OpenPDF#12
Grimmory is an independent community fork of Booklore.
3.4K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaPDF
$ npx skills add grimmory-tools/grimmory#13
A library for converting HTML into PDFs using ReportLab
2.4K starsJan 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add xhtml2pdf/xhtml2pdf#14
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
1.8K starsJan 25, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add MarkPDFdown/markpdfdown#15
iText for Java represents the next level of SDKs for developers that want to take advantage of the benefits PDF can bring. Equipped with a better document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities and the ability to create, edit and enhance PDF documents, iText can be a boon to nearly every workflow.
2.2K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaPDF
$ npx skills add itext/itext-java#16
A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents
42K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
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