A (companion) plugin to facilitate the extraction of text from images (OCR) and PDFs.
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A search engine that "just works" for Obsidian. Supports OCR and PDF indexing.
A (companion) plugin to facilitate the extraction of text from images (OCR) and PDFs.
$ npx skills add scambier/obsidian-text-extractorNote Companion: AI assistant for Obsidian that goes beyond just a chat. (prev File Organizer 2000)
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$ npx skills add getomni-ai/zeroxPDF++: the most Obsidian-native PDF annotation & viewing tool ever. Comes with optional Vim keybindings.
$ npx skills add RyotaUshio/obsidian-pdf-plus超好用的截图工具
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$ npx skills add wojtekmaj/react-pdfA plugin for reading and annotating PDFs and EPUBs in obsidian.
$ npx skills add elias-sundqvist/obsidian-annotatorObsidian PDF export enhancement plugin
$ npx skills add l1xnan/obsidian-better-export-pdfBISHENG is an open LLM devops platform for next generation Enterprise AI applications. Powerful and comprehensive features include: GenAI workflow, RAG, Agent, Unified model management, Evaluation, SFT, Dataset Management, Enterprise-level System Management, Observability and more.
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$ npx skills add xushengfeng/eSearchOCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
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$ npx skills add Lulzx/tinypdfTransforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows.
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$ npx skills add unjs/unpdfHow to choose
Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Obsidian Omnisearch if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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