Alternatives

Backslide alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Backslide

:sweat_drops: CLI tool for making HTML presentations with Remark.js using Markdown

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#1

Percollate

Similarity 143Trust 84Excellent 90

A command-line tool to turn web pages into readable PDF, EPUB, HTML, or Markdown docs.

4.6K starsAug 29, 2025 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add danburzo/percollate
#2

Pypandoc

Similarity 138Trust 92Excellent 100

Thin wrapper for "pandoc" (MIT)

1.1K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add JessicaTegner/pypandoc
#3

Docling

Similarity 135Trust 92Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

62K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#4

Bentopdf

Similarity 132Trust 94Excellent 100

The Privacy First PDF Toolkit

14K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add alam00000/bentopdf
#5

Parsr

Similarity 130Trust 92Excellent 100

Transforms PDF, Documents and Images into Enriched Structured Data

6.2K starsMar 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add axa-group/Parsr
#6

Pdf Inspector

Similarity 129Trust 91Excellent 98

Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions.

1.5K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add firecrawl/pdf-inspector
#7

Decktape

Similarity 129Trust 92Excellent 100

PDF exporter for HTML presentations

2.4K starsMay 29, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add astefanutti/decktape
#8

Vscode Markdown Pdf

Similarity 129Trust 89Excellent 97

Markdown converter for Visual Studio Code

1.3K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdocument-processingHTMLPDF
$ npx skills add yzane/vscode-markdown-pdf
#9

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 128Trust 98Excellent 100

A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents

42K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
#10

Markitdown

Similarity 128Trust 96Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

154K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#11

Kramdown

Similarity 127Trust 88Excellent 89

kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.

1.8K starsJan 31, 2026 pushdocument-processingRubyPDF
$ npx skills add gettalong/kramdown
#12

Stirling PDF

Similarity 127Trust 91Excellent 100

#1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere

81K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
#13

Quarkdown

Similarity 127Trust 97Excellent 100

🪐 Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.

16K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingKotlinPDF
$ npx skills add iamgio/quarkdown
#14

Md2pdf

Similarity 127Trust 89Excellent 94

Offline markdown to pdf, choose -> edit -> transform 🥂

1.8K starsJan 21, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add realdennis/md2pdf
#15

Md To Pdf

Similarity 127Trust 86Excellent 86

Hackable CLI tool for converting Markdown files to PDF using Node.js and headless Chrome.

1.9K starsDec 3, 2025 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add simonhaenisch/md-to-pdf
#16

Zettlr

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

13K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Zettlr/Zettlr

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