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Lambda Text Extractor alternatives for AI agents.

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Lambda Text Extractor

AWS Lambda functions to extract text from various binary formats.

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#1

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 141Trust 88Excellent 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

Liteparse

Similarity 132Trust 86Excellent 100

A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser

10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add run-llama/liteparse
#3

MinerU

Similarity 132Trust 85Excellent 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
#4

PyMuPDF

Similarity 131Trust 87Excellent 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
#5

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

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

42K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
#6

Docling

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

63K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#7

Markitdown

Similarity 124Trust 86Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

156K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#8

Pypdf

Similarity 121Trust 84Excellent 96

A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files

10K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add py-pdf/pypdf
#9

Tesseract.Js

Similarity 121Trust 87Excellent 100

Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages ๐Ÿ“–๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ–ฅ

38K starsMay 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add naptha/tesseract.js
#10

Tesseract

Similarity 120Trust 86Excellent 100

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

75K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add tesseract-ocr/tesseract
#11

PaddleOCR

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 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
#12

Koodo Reader

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 100

A modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and Web

27K starsJul 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptPDF
$ npx skills add koodo-reader/koodo-reader
#13

Koreader

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 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 24, 2026 pushdocument-processingLuaPDF
$ npx skills add koreader/koreader
#14

Readest

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 100

Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface to elevate your reading experience.

22K starsJun 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add readest/readest
#15

Stirling PDF

Similarity 118Trust 82Excellent 100

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

81K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
#16

Unstructured

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

Convert documents to structured data effortlessly. Unstructured is open-source ETL solution for transforming complex documents into clean, structured formats for language models. Visit our website to learn more about our enterprise grade Platform product for production grade workflows, partitioning, enrichments, chunking and embedding.

15K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingHTMLPDF
$ npx skills add Unstructured-IO/unstructured

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