Alternatives

Pdfarranger alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Pdfarranger

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.

100
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Trust
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#1

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 142Trust 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
#2

Pdf Craft

Similarity 139Trust 97Excellent 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
#3

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
#4

Markitdown

Similarity 134Trust 95Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

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

Dolphin

Similarity 131Trust 90Excellent 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
#7

Pikepdf

Similarity 129Trust 93Excellent 100

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

2.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pikepdf/pikepdf
#8

Xournalpp

Similarity 127Trust 98Excellent 100

Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++PDF
$ npx skills add xournalpp/xournalpp
#9

React Pdf

Similarity 127Trust 95Excellent 100

📄 Create PDF files using React

17K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add diegomura/react-pdf
#10

BibliotecaDev

Similarity 127Trust 96Excellent 100

📚 Biblioteca de livros essenciais da área da programação. (Confira o meu novo projeto `SendScriptWhatsapp`)

14K starsMay 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingPDFClaude Code
$ npx skills add KAYOKG/BibliotecaDev
#11

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 126Trust 98Excellent 100

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

42K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
#12

Zettlr

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

13K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Zettlr/Zettlr
#13

Sumatrapdf

Similarity 126Trust 92Excellent 100

SumatraPDF reader

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
#14

Rnote

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

Sketch and take handwritten notes.

11K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add flxzt/rnote
#15

React Pdf

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images.

11K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add wojtekmaj/react-pdf
#16

Ddddocr

Similarity 126Trust 91Excellent 100

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

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