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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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#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#3
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#4
A fast image processing library with low memory needs.
11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add libvips/libvips#5
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#6
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#7
PDF tooling for Go and the command line.
8.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoPDF
$ npx skills add pdfcpu/pdfcpu#8
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
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#10
Get your documents ready for gen AI
63K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling#11
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#12
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#13
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#14
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
156K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown#15
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
75K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add tesseract-ocr/tesseract#16
Transforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows.
68K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
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