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MinerU alternatives for AI agents.

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MinerU

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

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Dolphin

Similarity 150Trust 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
#2

PyMuPDF

Similarity 141Trust 100Excellent 100

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

9.9K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pymupdf/PyMuPDF
#3

Docling

Similarity 135Trust 100Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

61K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#4

PdfPig

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

Read and extract text and other content from PDFs in C# (port of PDFBox)

2.5K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#PDF
$ npx skills add UglyToad/PdfPig
#5

Pdfminer.Six

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF

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

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.

5.7K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add oomol-lab/pdf-craft
#7

Retain Pdf

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 98

在保留版面、公式与结构的前提下进行 PDF 翻译,适用于科研与技术文档

1.9K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add wxyhgk/retain-pdf
#8

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 100

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

34K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
#9

Koodo Reader

Similarity 128Trust 100Excellent 100

A modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and Web

27K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add koodo-reader/koodo-reader
#10

KkFileView

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

Universal File Online Preview Project based on Spring-Boot

14K starsMay 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaPDF
$ npx skills add kekingcn/kkFileView
#11

Zettlr

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

13K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Zettlr/Zettlr
#12

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

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

42K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
#13

PHPWord

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

A pure PHP library for reading and writing word processing documents

7.6K starsMay 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingPHPPDF
$ npx skills add PHPOffice/PHPWord
#14

DesktopEditors

Similarity 125Trust 100Excellent 100

Open-source office suite pack that comprises all the tools you need to work with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, and PDF forms on Windows, Linux, and macOS

4.9K starsMay 21, 2026 pushdocument-processingPDFClaude Code
$ npx skills add ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors
#15

Pdfplumber

Similarity 125Trust 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
#16

Pypdf

Similarity 125Trust 100Excellent 100

A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files

10K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add py-pdf/pypdf

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