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ParseBench alternatives for AI agents.

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ParseBench - A Document Parsing Benchmark for AI Agents

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#1

Retain Pdf

Similarity 129Trust 92Excellent 100

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

2.0K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonDocument AI
$ npx skills add wxyhgk/retain-pdf
#2

PaddleOCR

Similarity 128Trust 98Excellent 100

Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports 100+ languages.

82K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
#3

ExtractThinker

Similarity 127Trust 89Excellent 85

ExtractThinker is a Document Intelligence library for LLMs, offering ORM-style interaction for flexible and powerful document workflows.

1.6K starsAug 27, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add enoch3712/ExtractThinker
#4

Docstrange

Similarity 127Trust 89Excellent 85

Extract and convert data from any document, images, pdfs, word doc, ppt or URL into multiple formats (Markdown, JSON, CSV, HTML) with intelligent structured data extraction and advanced OCR.

1.5K starsOct 31, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add NanoNets/docstrange
#5

Donut

Similarity 126Trust 88Strong 79

Official Implementation of OCR-free Document Understanding Transformer (Donut) and Synthetic Document Generator (SynthDoG), ECCV 2022

6.9K starsJul 11, 2024 pushdocument-processingPythonDocument AI
$ npx skills add clovaai/donut
#6

Unilm

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

Large-scale Self-supervised Pre-training Across Tasks, Languages, and Modalities

22K starsJan 23, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonDocument AI
$ npx skills add microsoft/unilm
#7

Deepdoctection

Similarity 123Trust 89Excellent 100

A Repo For Document AI

3.2K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add deepdoctection/deepdoctection
#8

OpenOCR

Similarity 122Trust 94Excellent 100

OpenOCR: An Open-Source Toolkit for General-OCR Research and Applications, integrates a unified training and evaluation benchmark, commercial-grade OCR and Document Parsing systems, and faithful reproductions of the core implementations from a wide range of academic papers.

1.4K starsMay 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add Topdu/OpenOCR
#9

Tesseract

Similarity 122Trust 96Excellent 100

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

75K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add tesseract-ocr/tesseract
#10

Docext

Similarity 122Trust 91Excellent 98

An on-premises, OCR-free unstructured data extraction, markdown conversion and benchmarking toolkit. (https://idp-leaderboard.org/)

2.0K starsMar 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add NanoNets/docext
#11

Llm Aided Ocr

Similarity 121Trust 87Excellent 95

Enhances Tesseract OCR output using LLMs (local or API) for error correction, smart chunking, and markdown formatting of scanned PDFs

2.9K starsMar 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr
#12

SimpleHTR

Similarity 121Trust 90Excellent 95

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) system implemented with TensorFlow.

2.2K starsJan 31, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add githubharald/SimpleHTR
#13

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 120Trust 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
#14

Text Extract API

Similarity 120Trust 88Excellent 88

Document (PDF, Word, PPTX ...) extraction and parse API using state of the art modern OCRs + Ollama supported models. Anonymize documents. Remove PII. Convert any document or picture to structured JSON or Markdown

3.1K starsDec 8, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add CatchTheTornado/text-extract-api
#15

MinerU

Similarity 120Trust 94Excellent 100

Transforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows.

68K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU
#16

Umi OCR

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

OCR software, free and offline. 开源、免费的离线OCR软件。支持截屏/批量导入图片,PDF文档识别,排除水印/页眉页脚,扫描/生成二维码。内置多国语言库。

45K starsNov 20, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add hiroi-sora/Umi-OCR

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