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Pdfium Lib alternatives for AI agents.

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Pdfium Lib

PDFium - Project to compile PDFium library to multiple platforms.

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Borb

Similarity 137Trust 89Excellent 100

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
#2

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 134Trust 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
#3

Markitdown

Similarity 134Trust 96Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

154K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#4

Pdfplumber

Similarity 132Trust 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
#5

Pypdf

Similarity 132Trust 94Excellent 100

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

10K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add py-pdf/pypdf
#6

Pdf Craft

Similarity 131Trust 96Excellent 100

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

5.8K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add oomol-lab/pdf-craft
#7

Pdfarranger

Similarity 131Trust 96Excellent 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
#8

Dolphin

Similarity 131Trust 91Excellent 100

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

9.0K starsMar 25, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add bytedance/Dolphin
#9

Pdfminer.Six

Similarity 131Trust 91Excellent 100

Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF

7.0K starsMar 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pdfminer/pdfminer.six
#10

Pdfium Binaries

Similarity 129Trust 89Excellent 100

📰 Binary distribution of PDFium

1.4K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingShellPDF
$ npx skills add bblanchon/pdfium-binaries
#11

Pypdfium2

Similarity 129Trust 81Strong 81

Python bindings to PDFium, reasonably cross-platform.

780 starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pypdfium2-team/pypdfium2
#12

Pikepdf

Similarity 129Trust 92Excellent 100

A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF

2.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pikepdf/pikepdf
#13

Excalibur

Similarity 128Trust 92Excellent 100

A web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs

1.8K starsMay 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add camelot-dev/excalibur
#14

Ebook GPT Translator

Similarity 127Trust 89Excellent 98

Enjoy reading with your favorite style.

1.7K starsMar 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jesselau76/ebook-GPT-translator
#15

Thepipe

Similarity 127Trust 91Excellent 97

Get clean data from tricky documents, powered by vision-language models ⚡

1.5K starsMar 25, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add emcf/thepipe
#16

Kokoro Tts

Similarity 127Trust 89Excellent 97

A CLI text-to-speech tool using the Kokoro model, supporting multiple languages, voices (with blending), and various input formats including EPUB books and PDF documents.

1.6K starsApr 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add nazdridoy/kokoro-tts

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