borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.
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PDFium - Project to compile PDFium library to multiple platforms.
borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.
$ npx skills add borb-pdf/borbOCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
$ npx skills add ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDFPython tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdownPlumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
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$ npx skills add oomol-lab/pdf-craftSmall 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.
$ npx skills add pdfarranger/pdfarrangerThe official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025.
$ npx skills add bytedance/DolphinCommunity maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
$ npx skills add pdfminer/pdfminer.six📰 Binary distribution of PDFium
$ npx skills add bblanchon/pdfium-binariesPython bindings to PDFium, reasonably cross-platform.
$ npx skills add pypdfium2-team/pypdfium2A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF
$ npx skills add pikepdf/pikepdfA web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs
$ npx skills add camelot-dev/excaliburEnjoy reading with your favorite style.
$ npx skills add jesselau76/ebook-GPT-translatorGet clean data from tricky documents, powered by vision-language models ⚡
$ npx skills add emcf/thepipeA 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.
$ npx skills add nazdridoy/kokoro-ttsHow to choose
Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Pdfium Lib if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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