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Parsel alternatives for AI agents.

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Parsel

A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser for PHP

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#1

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 129Trust 89Excellent 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
#2

Tesseract.Js

Similarity 127Trust 87Excellent 100

Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥

38K starsMay 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add naptha/tesseract.js
#3

LunaTranslator

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

视觉小说翻译器 / Visual Novel Translator

12K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add HIllya51/LunaTranslator
#4

MinerU

Similarity 120Trust 86Excellent 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
#5

Sumatrapdf

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

SumatraPDF reader

17K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
#6

React Pdf

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

📄 Create PDF files using React

17K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add diegomura/react-pdf
#7

React Pdf

Similarity 119Trust 89Excellent 100

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

11K starsJul 29, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add wojtekmaj/react-pdf
#8

PyMuPDF

Similarity 119Trust 89Excellent 100

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

10K starsJun 29, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pymupdf/PyMuPDF
#9

PaddleOCR

Similarity 119Trust 89Excellent 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.

83K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
#10

ShareX

Similarity 119Trust 89Excellent 100

ShareX is a free and open-source application that enables users to capture or record any area of their screen with a single keystroke. It also supports uploading images, text, and various file types to a wide range of destinations.

38K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#OCR
$ npx skills add ShareX/ShareX
#11

Liteparse

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser

10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add run-llama/liteparse
#12

Tesseract

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

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

Sioyek

Similarity 118Trust 87Excellent 100

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

9.8K starsAug 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add ahrm/sioyek
#14

Pot Desktop

Similarity 118Trust 90Excellent 100

🌈一个跨平台的划词翻译和OCR软件 | A cross-platform software for text translation and recognition.

19K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add pot-app/pot-desktop
#15

PDFPatcher

Similarity 118Trust 84Excellent 97

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

13K starsJul 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#PDF
$ npx skills add wmjordan/PDFPatcher
#16

Easydict

Similarity 118Trust 90Excellent 100

一个简洁优雅的词典翻译 macOS App。开箱即用,支持离线 OCR 识别,支持有道词典,🍎 苹果系统词典,🍎 苹果系统翻译,OpenAI,Gemini,DeepL,Google,Bing,腾讯,百度,阿里,小牛,彩云和火山翻译。A concise and elegant Dictionary and Translator macOS App for looking up words and translating text.

14K starsJun 21, 2026 pushdocument-processingSwiftOCR
$ npx skills add tisfeng/Easydict

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