Alternatives

Pikepdf alternatives for AI agents.

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Pikepdf

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

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#1

Pypdf

Similarity 148Trust 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
#2

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
#3

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
#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

Pdf Craft

Similarity 131Trust 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
#6

Pdfarranger

Similarity 131Trust 97Excellent 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
#7

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
#8

Unipdf

Similarity 131Trust 89Excellent 100

Golang PDF library for creating and processing PDF files (pure go)

3.1K starsMay 27, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoPDF
$ npx skills add unidoc/unipdf
#9

Malicious Pdf

Similarity 130Trust 93Excellent 100

💀 Generate malicious PDF test files for testing phone-home callbacks, SSRF, XSS, NTLM credential theft, and data exfiltration in PDF viewers, converters, and web applications. Can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh

4.1K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jonaslejon/malicious-pdf
#10

Stirling PDF

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

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

81K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
#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

MinerU

Similarity 126Trust 94Excellent 100

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

68K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU
#13

PDFPatcher

Similarity 126Trust 91Excellent 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

12K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#PDF
$ npx skills add wmjordan/PDFPatcher
#14

Docling

Similarity 125Trust 92Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

62K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#15

PyMuPDF

Similarity 124Trust 98Excellent 100

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

10K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pymupdf/PyMuPDF
#16

TCPDF

Similarity 124Trust 91Excellent 100

Deprecated: PHP PDF library, superseded by tc-lib-pdf (https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-pdf)

4.5K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPHPPDF
$ npx skills add tecnickcom/TCPDF

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