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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/pypdfAlternatives
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A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF
2.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pikepdf/pikepdf#3
Golang PDF library for creating and processing PDF files (pure go)
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$ npx skills add unidoc/unipdf#4
qpdf: A content-preserving PDF document transformer
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$ npx skills add qpdf/qpdf#5
A simple tool for visually comparing two PDF files
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$ npx skills add vslavik/diff-pdf#6
Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby
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$ npx skills add gettalong/hexapdf#7
Open source PDF editor.
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$ npx skills add JakubMelka/PDF4QT#8
#1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere
81K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF#9
PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
10K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pymupdf/PyMuPDF#10
A fast image processing library with low memory needs.
11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add libvips/libvips#11
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#12
Bartosz Milewski's 'Category Theory for Programmers' unofficial PDF and LaTeX source
12K starsApr 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingTeXPDF
$ npx skills add hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf#13
🔥🔥超过1000本的计算机经典书籍、个人笔记资料以及本人在各平台发表文章中所涉及的资源等。书籍资源包括C/C++、Java、Python、Go语言、数据结构与算法、操作系统、后端架构、计算机系统知识、数据库、计算机网络、设计模式、前端、汇编以及校招社招各种面经~
27K starsNov 6, 2025 pushdocument-processingPDFClaude Code
$ npx skills add forthespada/CS-Books#14
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#15
PDF tooling for Go and the command line.
8.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoPDF
$ npx skills add pdfcpu/pdfcpu#16
Deprecated: PHP PDF library, superseded by tc-lib-pdf (https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-pdf)
4.5K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPHPPDF
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