Alternatives

IPA alternatives for AI agents.

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

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IPA

GUI analyzer for deep-diving into PDF files. Detect malicious payloads, understand object relationships, and extract key information for threat analysis.

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#1

Pdf

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

Rust library to read, manipulate and write PDF files.

1.7K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add pdf-rs/pdf
#2

Pdfrip

Similarity 136Trust 94Excellent 97

A multi-threaded PDF password cracking utility equipped with commonly encountered password format builders and dictionary attacks.

1.4K starsMar 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add mufeedvh/pdfrip
#3

Plato

Similarity 134Trust 87Excellent 93

Document reader

1.7K starsMar 30, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add baskerville/plato
#4

Liteparse

Similarity 132Trust 95Excellent 100

A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser

10K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add run-llama/liteparse
#5

Bookokrat

Similarity 129Trust 80Strong 81

A terminal EPUB / PDF Book Reader (+djvu)

976 starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add bugzmanov/bookokrat
#6

Crowbook

Similarity 129Trust 82Strong 76

Converts books written in Markdown to HTML, LaTeX/PDF and EPUB

820 starsFeb 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add crowdagger/crowbook
#7

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 128Trust 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
#8

Printpdf

Similarity 128Trust 93Excellent 100

Rust / WASM library for reading, writing and rendering PDF

1.1K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add fschutt/printpdf
#9

React Pdf

Similarity 127Trust 95Excellent 100

📄 Create PDF files using React

17K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add diegomura/react-pdf
#10

BibliotecaDev

Similarity 127Trust 96Excellent 100

📚 Biblioteca de livros essenciais da área da programação. (Confira o meu novo projeto `SendScriptWhatsapp`)

14K starsMay 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingPDFClaude Code
$ npx skills add KAYOKG/BibliotecaDev
#11

Sumatrapdf

Similarity 126Trust 92Excellent 100

SumatraPDF reader

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
#12

React Pdf

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images.

11K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add wojtekmaj/react-pdf
#13

Pdfplumber

Similarity 126Trust 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
#14

Sioyek

Similarity 126Trust 94Excellent 100

Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers

9.6K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add ahrm/sioyek
#15

PDFPatcher

Similarity 126Trust 91Excellent 100

PDF补丁丁——PDF工具箱,可以编辑书签、剪裁旋转页面、解除限制、提取或合并文档,探查文档结构,提取图片、转成图片等等

12K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#PDF
$ npx skills add wmjordan/PDFPatcher
#16

Pdf Craft

Similarity 125Trust 97Excellent 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

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