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Pdftabextract alternatives for AI agents.

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Pdftabextract

A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.

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#1

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 152Trust 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
#2

EasyOCR

Similarity 141Trust 93Excellent 100

Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.

30K starsDec 5, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add JaidedAI/EasyOCR
#3

Pdf Craft

Similarity 141Trust 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
#4

Ddddocr

Similarity 140Trust 92Excellent 100

带带弟弟 通用验证码识别OCR pypi版

14K starsMar 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add sml2h3/ddddocr
#5

Chandra

Similarity 140Trust 94Excellent 100

OCR model that handles complex tables, forms, handwriting with full layout.

11K starsApr 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add datalab-to/chandra
#6

GLM OCR

Similarity 139Trust 92Excellent 100

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

7.0K starsApr 21, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add zai-org/GLM-OCR
#7

Normcap

Similarity 137Trust 89Excellent 100

OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images

2.6K starsMay 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add dynobo/normcap
#8

Open Paperless

Similarity 136Trust 78Promising 69

Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents (acquired by Mayan EDMS)

2.6K starsDec 10, 2018 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add zhoubear/open-paperless
#9

Yomitoku

Similarity 135Trust 91Excellent 98

YomiTokuはAIを活用した日本語文書解析エンジンを提供するPythonパッケージです。 Yomitoku is an AI-powered document image analysis package designed specifically for the Japanese language.

1.5K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add kotaro-kinoshita/yomitoku
#10

Llm Aided Ocr

Similarity 135Trust 87Excellent 95

Enhances Tesseract OCR output using LLMs (local or API) for error correction, smart chunking, and markdown formatting of scanned PDFs

2.9K starsMar 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr
#11

SimpleHTR

Similarity 135Trust 90Excellent 95

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) system implemented with TensorFlow.

2.2K starsJan 31, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add githubharald/SimpleHTR
#12

Tesserocr

Similarity 135Trust 88Excellent 95

A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API

2.2K starsMar 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add sirfz/tesserocr
#13

Captcha Trainer

Similarity 135Trust 90Excellent 88

[验证码识别-训练] This project is based on CNN/ResNet/DenseNet+GRU/LSTM+CTC/CrossEntropy to realize verification code identification. This project is only for training the model.

3.2K starsNov 9, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add kerlomz/captcha_trainer
#14

Pdfplumber

Similarity 134Trust 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
#15

Umi OCR

Similarity 134Trust 93Excellent 100

OCR software, free and offline. 开源、免费的离线OCR软件。支持截屏/批量导入图片,PDF文档识别,排除水印/页眉页脚,扫描/生成二维码。内置多国语言库。

45K starsNov 20, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add hiroi-sora/Umi-OCR
#16

Pdfarranger

Similarity 133Trust 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

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