Alternatives

Pdf Tools alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Pdf Tools

Emacs support library for PDF files.

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#1

Sumatrapdf

Similarity 134Trust 92Excellent 100

SumatraPDF reader

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
#2

React Pdf

Similarity 134Trust 95Excellent 100

Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images.

11K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add wojtekmaj/react-pdf
#3

Sioyek

Similarity 134Trust 94Excellent 100

Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers

9.6K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add ahrm/sioyek
#4

PDF4QT

Similarity 130Trust 93Excellent 100

Open source PDF editor.

1.4K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++PDF
$ npx skills add JakubMelka/PDF4QT
#5

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 128Trust 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
#6

Pdf2htmlEX

Similarity 128Trust 83Excellent 86

Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format.

5.5K starsJul 17, 2025 pushdocument-processingHTMLPDF
$ npx skills add pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX
#7

Ng2 Pdf Viewer

Similarity 128Trust 89Excellent 93

📄 PDF Viewer Component for Angular

1.3K starsFeb 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add VadimDez/ng2-pdf-viewer
#8

Xournalpp

Similarity 127Trust 98Excellent 100

Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++PDF
$ npx skills add xournalpp/xournalpp
#9

React Pdf

Similarity 127Trust 95Excellent 100

📄 Create PDF files using React

17K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add diegomura/react-pdf
#10

BibliotecaDev

Similarity 127Trust 96Excellent 100

📚 Biblioteca de livros essenciais da área da programação. (Confira o meu novo projeto `SendScriptWhatsapp`)

14K starsMay 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingPDFClaude Code
$ npx skills add KAYOKG/BibliotecaDev
#11

PdfViewer

Similarity 126Trust 89Excellent 87

Simple Android PDF viewer based on pdf.js and content providers. The app doesn't require any permissions. The PDF stream is fed into the sandboxed WebView without giving it access to content or files. CSP is used to enforce that the JavaScript and styling properties within the WebView are entirely static.

962 starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingKotlinPDF
$ npx skills add GrapheneOS/PdfViewer
#12

Pdfplumber

Similarity 126Trust 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
#13

PDFPatcher

Similarity 126Trust 91Excellent 100

PDF补丁丁——PDF工具箱,可以编辑书签、剪裁旋转页面、解除限制、提取或合并文档,探查文档结构,提取图片、转成图片等等

12K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#PDF
$ npx skills add wmjordan/PDFPatcher
#14

Pdf Craft

Similarity 125Trust 97Excellent 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
#15

Pdfarranger

Similarity 125Trust 97Excellent 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

Pdfcpu

Similarity 125Trust 92Excellent 100

PDF tooling for Go and the command line.

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

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