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OCRmyPDF alternatives for AI agents.

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OCRmyPDF

OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched

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Pdf Craft

Similarity 142Trust 100Excellent 100

PDF craft can convert PDF files into various other formats. This project will focus on processing PDF files of scanned books.

5.7K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add oomol-lab/pdf-craft
#2

Ddddocr

Similarity 141Trust 100Excellent 99

带带弟弟 通用验证码识别OCR pypi版

14K starsMar 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add sml2h3/ddddocr
#3

Chandra

Similarity 141Trust 100Excellent 100

OCR model that handles complex tables, forms, handwriting with full layout.

11K starsApr 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add datalab-to/chandra
#4

Dolphin

Similarity 140Trust 100Excellent 100

The official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025.

9.0K starsMar 25, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add bytedance/Dolphin
#5

GLM OCR

Similarity 140Trust 100Excellent 98

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

6.9K starsApr 21, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add zai-org/GLM-OCR
#6

Normcap

Similarity 138Trust 100Excellent 100

OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images

2.6K starsMay 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add dynobo/normcap
#7

Yomitoku

Similarity 137Trust 100Excellent 98

YomiTokuはAIを活用した日本語文書解析エンジンを提供するPythonパッケージです。 Yomitoku is an AI-powered document image analysis package designed specifically for the Japanese language.

1.4K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add kotaro-kinoshita/yomitoku
#8

Tesseract.Js

Similarity 137Trust 100Excellent 100

Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥

38K starsMay 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add naptha/tesseract.js
#9

Pdfplumber

Similarity 135Trust 100Excellent 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
#10

Umi OCR

Similarity 135Trust 100Excellent 100

OCR software, free and offline. 开源、免费的离线OCR软件。支持截屏/批量导入图片,PDF文档识别,排除水印/页眉页脚,扫描/生成二维码。内置多国语言库。

45K starsNov 20, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add hiroi-sora/Umi-OCR
#11

Pdfminer.Six

Similarity 134Trust 100Excellent 100

Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF

7.0K starsMar 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pdfminer/pdfminer.six
#12

Pdfarranger

Similarity 134Trust 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
#13

Manga Image Translator

Similarity 133Trust 100Excellent 100

Translate manga/image 一键翻译各类图片内文字 https://cotrans.touhou.ai/ (no longer working)

10.0K starsMay 24, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add zyddnys/manga-image-translator
#14

Excalibur

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

A web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs

1.8K starsMay 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add camelot-dev/excalibur
#15

Arxiv.Py

Similarity 131Trust 100Excellent 97

Python wrapper for the arXiv API

1.5K starsMay 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add lukasschwab/arxiv.py
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Rpaframework

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 100

Collection of open-source libraries and tools for Robotic Process Automation (RPA), designed to be used with both Robot Framework and Python

1.5K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add robocorp/rpaframework

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