Alternatives

Paperless Ngx alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Paperless Ngx

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

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#1

Docspell

Similarity 140Trust 100Excellent 100

Assist in organizing your piles of documents, resulting from scanners, e-mails and other sources with miminal effort.

2.3K starsMay 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingElmPDF
$ npx skills add eikek/docspell
#2

PdfDing

Similarity 130Trust 100Excellent 100

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

1.7K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add mrmn2/PdfDing
#3

Stirling PDF

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 100

#1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere

81K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
#4

Bentopdf

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

The Privacy First PDF Toolkit

14K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add alam00000/bentopdf
#5

Rnote

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

Sketch and take handwritten notes.

11K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add flxzt/rnote
#6

MinerU

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

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

67K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU
#7

Docling

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

61K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#8

Laravel Dompdf

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 98

A DOMPDF Wrapper for Laravel

7.3K starsMar 31, 2026 pushdocument-processingPHPPDF
$ npx skills add barryvdh/laravel-dompdf
#9

Grimmory

Similarity 125Trust 100Excellent 100

Grimmory is an independent community fork of Booklore.

3.4K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaPDF
$ npx skills add grimmory-tools/grimmory
#10

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
#11

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
#12

PyMuPDF

Similarity 125Trust 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
#13

Itext Java

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

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.

2.3K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaPDF
$ npx skills add itext/itext-java
#14

Pdfminer.Six

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF

7.0K starsMar 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pdfminer/pdfminer.six
#15

Pdf Craft

Similarity 124Trust 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
#16

Pdfarranger

Similarity 124Trust 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

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