Alternatives

PyMuPDF alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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PyMuPDF

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

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MinerU

Similarity 143Trust 100Excellent 100

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
#2

Pypdf

Similarity 133Trust 100Excellent 100

A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files

10K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add py-pdf/pypdf
#3

Pdf Craft

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

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
#4

Kcc

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

KCC (a.k.a. Kindle Comic Converter) is a comic and manga converter for ebook readers.

5.2K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add ciromattia/kcc
#5

Retain Pdf

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 98

在保留版面、公式与结构的前提下进行 PDF 翻译,适用于科研与技术文档

1.9K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add wxyhgk/retain-pdf
#6

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 100

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
#7

Koreader

Similarity 128Trust 100Excellent 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 7, 2026 pushdocument-processingLuaPDF
$ npx skills add koreader/koreader
#8

Readest

Similarity 128Trust 100Excellent 100

Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface to elevate your reading experience.

21K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add readest/readest
#9

Docling

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

61K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#10

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

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

42K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
#11

Dolphin

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

The official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025.

9.0K starsMar 25, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add bytedance/Dolphin
#12

Pdfplumber

Similarity 125Trust 100Excellent 100

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
#13

Pdfminer.Six

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF

7.0K starsMar 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pdfminer/pdfminer.six
#14

Obsidian Omnisearch

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

A search engine that "just works" for Obsidian. Supports OCR and PDF indexing.

2.0K starsJun 2, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add scambier/obsidian-omnisearch
#15

Pdfarranger

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 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
#16

Malicious Pdf

Similarity 123Trust 100Excellent 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

4.0K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jonaslejon/malicious-pdf

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