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MegaParse alternatives for AI agents.

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MegaParse

File Parser optimised for LLM Ingestion with no loss 🧠 Parse PDFs, Docx, PPTx in a format that is ideal for LLMs.

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#1

Pdfminer.Six

Similarity 147Trust 91Excellent 100

Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF

7.0K starsMar 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pdfminer/pdfminer.six
#2

Ebook GPT Translator

Similarity 143Trust 89Excellent 98

Enjoy reading with your favorite style.

1.7K starsMar 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jesselau76/ebook-GPT-translator
#3

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 142Trust 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

MinerU

Similarity 142Trust 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
#5

Pdfplumber

Similarity 140Trust 94Excellent 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
#6

Pdf Craft

Similarity 139Trust 96Excellent 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
#7

Pdfarranger

Similarity 139Trust 96Excellent 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
#8

Dolphin

Similarity 139Trust 91Excellent 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
#9

Excalibur

Similarity 136Trust 92Excellent 100

A web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs

1.8K starsMay 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add camelot-dev/excalibur
#10

Markpdfdown

Similarity 135Trust 91Excellent 94

A high-quality PDF to Markdown tool based on large language model visual recognition. 一款基于大模型视觉识别的高质量PDF转Markdown工具

1.8K starsJan 25, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add MarkPDFdown/markpdfdown
#11

Pdftotext

Similarity 134Trust 89Excellent 96

Simple PDF text extraction

1.1K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jalan/pdftotext
#12

Markitdown

Similarity 134Trust 96Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

154K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#13

Docling

Similarity 133Trust 92Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

62K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#14

Geektime Docs

Similarity 132Trust 86Excellent 87

👏极客时间 pdf & markdown 文档

1.3K starsDec 26, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add uaxe/geektime-docs
#15

Pypdf

Similarity 132Trust 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
#16

PyHanko

Similarity 131Trust 86Excellent 86

pyHanko: sign and stamp PDF files

733 starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add MatthiasValvekens/pyHanko

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