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A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF
2.7K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
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Pypdf
A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
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Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
10K starsJan 28, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jsvine/pdfplumber#3
The official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025.
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$ npx skills add bytedance/Dolphin#4
PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
9.9K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pymupdf/PyMuPDF#5
Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
7.0K starsMar 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pdfminer/pdfminer.six#6
PDF craft can convert PDF files into various other formats. This project will focus on processing PDF files of scanned books.
5.7K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add oomol-lab/pdf-craft#7
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#8
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#9
Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions.
1.4K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add firecrawl/pdf-inspector#10
A web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs
1.8K starsMay 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add camelot-dev/excalibur#11
Python wrapper for the arXiv API
1.5K starsMay 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add lukasschwab/arxiv.py#12
#1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere
81K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF#13
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
34K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF#14
Transforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows.
67K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU#15
Get your documents ready for gen AI
61K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling#16
A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents
42K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
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