Alternatives

Sile alternatives for AI agents.

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

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The SILE Typesetter — Simon’s Improved Layout Engine

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#1

Rinohtype

Similarity 130Trust 84Strong 78

The Python document processor

530 starsMay 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add brechtm/rinohtype
#2

Koreader

Similarity 126Trust 98Excellent 100

An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices

27K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingLuaPDF
$ npx skills add koreader/koreader
#3

PDFPatcher

Similarity 126Trust 92Excellent 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
#4

TCPDF

Similarity 124Trust 91Excellent 100

Deprecated: PHP PDF library, superseded by tc-lib-pdf (https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-pdf)

4.5K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPHPPDF
$ npx skills add tecnickcom/TCPDF
#5

OpenPDF

Similarity 124Trust 91Excellent 100

OpenPDF is an open-source Java library for creating, editing, rendering, and encrypting PDF documents, as well as generating PDFs from HTML. It is licensed under the LGPL and MPL.

4.3K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaPDF
$ npx skills add LibrePDF/OpenPDF
#6

Malicious Pdf

Similarity 124Trust 91Excellent 100

💀 Generate malicious PDF test files for testing phone-home callbacks, SSRF, XSS, NTLM credential theft, and data exfiltration in PDF viewers, converters, and web applications. Can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh

4.1K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jonaslejon/malicious-pdf
#7

Pikepdf

Similarity 123Trust 92Excellent 100

A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF

2.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pikepdf/pikepdf
#8

Borb

Similarity 123Trust 89Excellent 100

borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.

3.6K starsMay 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add borb-pdf/borb
#9

Unipdf

Similarity 123Trust 89Excellent 100

Golang PDF library for creating and processing PDF files (pure go)

3.1K starsMay 27, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoPDF
$ npx skills add unidoc/unipdf
#10

Tinypdf

Similarity 122Trust 91Excellent 100

Minimal PDF creation library. <400 LOC, zero dependencies, makes real PDFs.

1.8K starsMay 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Lulzx/tinypdf
#11

Asciidoctor Pdf

Similarity 122Trust 95Excellent 100

:page_with_curl: Asciidoctor PDF: A native PDF converter for AsciiDoc based on Asciidoctor and Prawn, written entirely in Ruby.

1.2K starsMay 29, 2026 pushdocument-processingRubyPDF
$ npx skills add asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf
#12

Tc Lib Pdf

Similarity 122Trust 89Excellent 99

PHP PDF Library (TCPDF)

1.8K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPHPPDF
$ npx skills add tecnickcom/tc-lib-pdf
#13

Pypandoc

Similarity 122Trust 92Excellent 100

Thin wrapper for "pandoc" (MIT)

1.1K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add JessicaTegner/pypandoc
#14

Xhtml2pdf

Similarity 122Trust 90Excellent 95

A library for converting HTML into PDFs using ReportLab

2.4K starsJan 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add xhtml2pdf/xhtml2pdf
#15

Printpdf

Similarity 121Trust 92Excellent 100

Rust / WASM library for reading, writing and rendering PDF

1.1K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add fschutt/printpdf
#16

Dart Pdf

Similarity 121Trust 91Excellent 97

Pdf creation module for dart/flutter

1.5K starsMar 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingDartPDF
$ npx skills add DavBfr/dart_pdf

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