Alternatives

PdfDing alternatives for AI agents.

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

Current skill

PdfDing

Selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices.

100
Quality
96
Trust
1.7K
Stars
#1

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 134Trust 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
#2

PDF4QT

Similarity 130Trust 93Excellent 100

Open source PDF editor.

1.4K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++PDF
$ npx skills add JakubMelka/PDF4QT
#3

Obsidian Pdf Plus

Similarity 128Trust 89Excellent 87

PDF++: the most Obsidian-native PDF annotation & viewing tool ever. Comes with optional Vim keybindings.

2.3K starsAug 30, 2025 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add RyotaUshio/obsidian-pdf-plus
#4

Xournalpp

Similarity 127Trust 98Excellent 100

Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++PDF
$ npx skills add xournalpp/xournalpp
#5

Stirling PDF

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 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
#6

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 126Trust 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
#7

Sumatrapdf

Similarity 126Trust 92Excellent 100

SumatraPDF reader

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
#8

Bentopdf

Similarity 126Trust 94Excellent 100

The Privacy First PDF Toolkit

14K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add alam00000/bentopdf
#9

React Pdf

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images.

11K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add wojtekmaj/react-pdf
#10

Markitdown

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

154K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#11

MinerU

Similarity 126Trust 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
#12

Sioyek

Similarity 126Trust 94Excellent 100

Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers

9.6K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add ahrm/sioyek
#13

Docling

Similarity 125Trust 92Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

62K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#14

PyMuPDF

Similarity 124Trust 98Excellent 100

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

10K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pymupdf/PyMuPDF
#15

Embed Pdf Viewer

Similarity 124Trust 93Excellent 100

A PDF viewer that seamlessly integrates with any JavaScript project

4.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer
#16

Pdfplumber

Similarity 124Trust 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

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