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The Privacy First PDF Toolkit
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A PDF viewer that seamlessly integrates with any JavaScript project
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$ npx skills add kekingcn/kkFileView#5
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$ npx skills add wmjordan/PDFPatcher#6
Sketch and take handwritten notes.
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$ npx skills add flxzt/rnote#7
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$ npx skills add py-pdf/pypdf#8
The official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025.
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$ npx skills add bytedance/Dolphin#9
A DOMPDF Wrapper for Laravel
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$ npx skills add barryvdh/laravel-dompdf#10
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.
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$ npx skills add readest/readest#11
Transforms PDF, Documents and Images into Enriched Structured Data
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$ npx skills add axa-group/Parsr#12
📄 Create PDF files using React
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$ npx skills add diegomura/react-pdf#13
PDFsam, a desktop application to split, merge, mix, rotate PDF files and extract pages
4.4K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaPDF
$ npx skills add torakiki/pdfsam#14
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#15
The Open Source DocuSign Alternative.
13K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add documenso/documenso#16
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
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