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#1

Awesome AI Books

Similarity 129Trust 92Excellent 94

Some awesome AI related books and pdfs for learning and downloading, also apply some playground models for learning

1.7K starsFeb 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingJupyter NotebookPDF
$ npx skills add zslucky/awesome-AI-books
#2

Unstructured

Similarity 127Trust 98Excellent 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 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingHTMLPDF
$ npx skills add Unstructured-IO/unstructured
#3

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 126Trust 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
#4

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 126Trust 98Excellent 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
#5

Markitdown

Similarity 126Trust 96Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

154K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#6

Mit Deep Learning Book Pdf

Similarity 126Trust 91Excellent 100

MIT Deep Learning Book in PDF format (complete and parts) by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville

14K starsFeb 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaPDF
$ npx skills add janishar/mit-deep-learning-book-pdf
#7

MinerU

Similarity 126Trust 94Excellent 100

Transforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows.

68K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU
#8

Docling

Similarity 125Trust 92Excellent 100

Get your documents ready for gen AI

62K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add docling-project/docling
#9

Free Programming Books Zh CN

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 90

:books: 免费的计算机编程类中文书籍,欢迎投稿

117K starsJul 15, 2024 pushdocument-processingPDFClaude Code
$ npx skills add justjavac/free-programming-books-zh_CN
#10

PyMuPDF

Similarity 124Trust 97Excellent 100

PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.

10K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pymupdf/PyMuPDF
#11

Pdfplumber

Similarity 124Trust 94Excellent 100

Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.

10K starsJan 28, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jsvine/pdfplumber
#12

Pypdf

Similarity 124Trust 94Excellent 100

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
#13

Pdf Craft

Similarity 123Trust 96Excellent 100

PDF craft can convert PDF files into various other formats. This project will focus on processing PDF files of scanned books.

5.8K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add oomol-lab/pdf-craft
#14

Expert Readed Books

Similarity 123Trust 87Excellent 91

2021年最新总结,推荐工程师合适读本,计算机科学,软件技术,创业,思想类,数学类,人物传记书籍

12K starsJun 20, 2025 pushdocument-processingPDFClaude Code
$ npx skills add 0voice/expert_readed_books
#15

Pdfarranger

Similarity 123Trust 96Excellent 100

Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.

5.6K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add pdfarranger/pdfarranger
#16

Dolphin

Similarity 123Trust 91Excellent 100

The official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025.

9.0K starsMar 25, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add bytedance/Dolphin

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