jsvine/pdfplumber
Pulls text, tables and the exact position of every object out of a PDF, and draws the table it detected so a bad result can be fixed.
py-pdf/pypdf
Joins, splits, locks and reads PDF files from a few lines of Python, with no service involved and nothing uploaded anywhere.
pdfarranger/pdfarranger
Shows every page of a PDF as a thumbnail that can be dragged, rotated, cropped or deleted.
pymupdf/PyMuPDF
Reads, edits and renders PDFs from Python on the MuPDF engine, with text coordinates and page images that the permissive alternatives cannot produce.
pikepdf/pikepdf 💎 hidden gem
A Python library for reading and writing PDF files, built on the QPDF engine, that preserves structure rather than redrawing the file.
pdfcpu/pdfcpu
One downloaded program that validates, merges, splits, shrinks, encrypts, signs, stamps and extracts text and images from PDFs, up to PDF 2.0.
silverbulletmd/silverbullet
A self-hosted personal knowledge base that keeps every page as a plain Markdown file in a folder you own, with links, search and live queries on top.
ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
It keeps a real copy of every page you save, in several formats at once, so a dead link stops mattering.
opendatalab/MinerU
It converts PDFs into clean Markdown or JSON, keeping headings, tables, equations and reading order.
eikek/docspell 💎 hidden gem
It reads incoming documents, works out who they are from and what they say, and makes the pile searchable.
sismics/docs 💎 hidden gem
A shared document store with tags, permissions, full-text search and reading of scanned pages.
ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
It adds an invisible text layer to a scanned PDF so it can be searched, without changing how the document looks.
jgm/djot 💎 hidden gem
A light markup language from the author of pandoc, designed to remove the parts of Markdown that are slow and sometimes ambiguous to parse.
usememos/memos
A very light self-hosted notes app built around quick capture: short Markdown notes on a chronological timeline, stored in your own database.
paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
It reads the words on your scans and invoices so you can search them like email.
karakeep-app/karakeep
A self-hosted place for links, notes, images and PDFs that keeps a copy of every page, labels items with a language model, and searches by words and by meaning.
sist2app/sist2 💎 hidden gem
Indexes a folder tree and serves a search page over the contents of the files, including files inside zip, rar and 7z archives, with OCR for scanned pages.
gotenberg/gotenberg
One service that turns HTML, Markdown, Word files and spreadsheets into PDF, using a real browser to lay the page out.
jgm/pandoc
Converts any document format into any other in one command, including Markdown to Word and Markdown to PDF.
microsoft/markitdown
Converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML, images and audio into Markdown in one command.
quarto-dev/quarto-cli
One source file rendered into a web page, a PDF and a slide deck, with Python code executed inside the document.
scalar/scalar
Turns the OpenAPI file FastAPI already generates into documentation a person would read.
Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
About fifty PDF operations in one self-hosted container — nothing leaves the machine.
datalab-to/marker
The recognised open state-of-the-art PDF-to-Markdown converter — Docling's head-to-head, on a corpus of your users' actual uploads.
typst/typst
Modern typesetting: plain-text source compiles to a polished PDF in milliseconds, with excellent Cyrillic support.
slidevjs/slidev
Markdown-driven presentation tool — the explainer slides in a tutorial video, plus a PDF export that doubles as a lead magnet.
docling-project/docling
IBM's document parser — PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, EPUB and more into structured Markdown, locally on CPU.
AnswerDotAI/llms-txt 💎 hidden gem
The /llms.txt spec — one small file that tells AI models what your product is. An hour of work, permanent upside.
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