Alternatives

Open Paperless alternatives for AI agents.

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Open Paperless

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

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#1

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 143Trust 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
#2

Markitdown

Similarity 127Trust 87Excellent 100

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

156K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown
#3

Tesseract.Js

Similarity 127Trust 87Excellent 100

Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥

38K starsMay 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add naptha/tesseract.js
#4

MinerU

Similarity 126Trust 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
#5

LunaTranslator

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

视觉小说翻译器 / Visual Novel Translator

12K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add HIllya51/LunaTranslator
#6

PyMuPDF

Similarity 125Trust 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

PaddleOCR

Similarity 125Trust 89Excellent 100

Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports 100+ languages.

83K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
#8

Pypdf

Similarity 124Trust 86Excellent 96

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
#9

Manga Image Translator

Similarity 123Trust 90Excellent 100

Translate manga/image 一键翻译各类图片内文字 https://cotrans.touhou.ai/ (no longer working)

10K starsMay 24, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add zyddnys/manga-image-translator
#10

X AnyLabeling

Similarity 123Trust 89Excellent 99

Effortless data labeling with AI support from Segment Anything and other awesome models.

9.5K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add CVHub520/X-AnyLabeling
#11

Sumatrapdf

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

SumatraPDF reader

17K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
#12

React Pdf

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

📄 Create PDF files using React

17K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add diegomura/react-pdf
#13

React Pdf

Similarity 119Trust 89Excellent 100

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

11K starsJul 29, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add wojtekmaj/react-pdf
#14

Paperless Ngx

Similarity 119Trust 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
#15

ShareX

Similarity 119Trust 89Excellent 100

ShareX is a free and open-source application that enables users to capture or record any area of their screen with a single keystroke. It also supports uploading images, text, and various file types to a wide range of destinations.

38K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#OCR
$ npx skills add ShareX/ShareX
#16

Liteparse

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser

10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustPDF
$ npx skills add run-llama/liteparse

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