Alternatives

Lue alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Lue

Terminal eBook Reader with Audiobook-Quality Text-to-Speech โ€” Supports EPUB, PDF, DOCX, HTML, RTF, TXT, and MD.

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#1

Koodo Reader

Similarity 135Trust 91Excellent 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
#2

Koreader

Similarity 135Trust 89Excellent 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
#3

Readest

Similarity 134Trust 89Excellent 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
#4

Docling

Similarity 133Trust 89Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

63K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#5

MinerU

Similarity 132Trust 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
#6

PyMuPDF

Similarity 131Trust 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
#7

Unstructured

Similarity 126Trust 89Excellent 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
#8

Zettlr

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

13K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add Zettlr/Zettlr
#9

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 125Trust 89Excellent 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
#10

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 125Trust 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
#11

KkFileView

Similarity 125Trust 84Excellent 100

Universal File Online Preview Project based on Spring-Boot

14K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaPDF
$ npx skills add kekingcn/kkFileView
#12

Markitdown

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

156K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#13

Pdfcpu

Similarity 124Trust 83Excellent 100

PDF tooling for Go and the command line.

8.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoPDF
$ npx skills add pdfcpu/pdfcpu
#14

Pypdf

Similarity 122Trust 86Excellent 99

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
#15

Stirling PDF

Similarity 118Trust 83Excellent 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

Quarkdown

Similarity 118Trust 89Excellent 100

๐Ÿช Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.

16K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingKotlinPDF
$ npx skills add iamgio/quarkdown

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