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Pdfminer.Six alternatives for AI agents.

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Pdfminer.Six

Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF

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#1

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 141Trust 89Excellent 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

Markitdown

Similarity 133Trust 87Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

156K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#3

MinerU

Similarity 132Trust 86Excellent 100

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

68K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU
#4

Pypdf

Similarity 130Trust 86Excellent 99

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
#5

Sumatrapdf

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

SumatraPDF reader

17K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
#6

React Pdf

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

📄 Create PDF files using React

17K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add diegomura/react-pdf
#7

BibliotecaDev

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

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

14K starsMay 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingPDF
$ npx skills add KAYOKG/BibliotecaDev
#8

React Pdf

Similarity 125Trust 89Excellent 100

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

11K starsJul 29, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add wojtekmaj/react-pdf
#9

Docling

Similarity 125Trust 89Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

63K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#10

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 125Trust 89Excellent 100

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

42K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
#11

PDFPatcher

Similarity 125Trust 85Excellent 100

PDF补丁丁——PDF工具箱,可以编辑书签、剪裁旋转页面、解除限制、提取或合并文档,探查文档结构,提取图片、转成图片等等

13K starsJul 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#PDF
$ npx skills add wmjordan/PDFPatcher
#12

Sioyek

Similarity 124Trust 86Excellent 100

Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers

9.6K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add ahrm/sioyek
#13

Pdfcpu

Similarity 124Trust 83Excellent 100

PDF tooling for Go and the command line.

8.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoPDF
$ npx skills add pdfcpu/pdfcpu
#14

PyMuPDF

Similarity 123Trust 89Excellent 100

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

10K starsJun 29, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pymupdf/PyMuPDF
#15

Koodo Reader

Similarity 119Trust 91Excellent 100

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

27K starsJul 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add koodo-reader/koodo-reader
#16

Koreader

Similarity 119Trust 89Excellent 100

An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices

27K starsJun 24, 2026 pushdocument-processingLuaPDF
$ npx skills add koreader/koreader

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