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Converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML, images and audio into Markdown in one command.

★ 191kFree
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A self-hosted web application for editing, converting and combining PDF files.

★ 94.1kFree
MIopendatalab/MinerU

It converts PDFs into clean Markdown or JSON, keeping headings, tables, equations and reading order.

★ 81.7kFree
DOdocling-project/docling

A document parser that turns PDFs, office files, images and audio into clean structured text.

★ 68.7kFree
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It reads the words on scans and invoices so they can be searched like email.

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PAjgm/pandoc

Converts any document format into any other in one command, including Markdown to Word and Markdown to PDF.

★ 46.6kFree
MAdatalab-to/marker

A command-line converter that turns PDFs into Markdown or structured data with high accuracy.

★ 40.4kFree
OCocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF

It makes a scanned PDF searchable without changing how it looks.

★ 35kFree
PYpymupdf/PyMuPDF

Reads, edits and renders PDFs from Python, quickly.

★ 10.9kFree
PDjsvine/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.

★ 10.7kFree
PYpy-pdf/pypdf

Joins, splits, locks and reads PDF files from a few lines of Python, with no service involved and nothing uploaded anywhere.

★ 10.2kFree
PDpdfcpu/pdfcpu

One downloaded program that validates, merges, splits, shrinks, encrypts, signs, stamps and extracts text and images from PDFs, up to PDF 2.0.

★ 8.7kFree
PDpdfarranger/pdfarranger

Shows every page of a PDF as a thumbnail that can be dragged, rotated, cropped or deleted.

★ 6kFree
CAcamelot-dev/camelot

Extracts tables from PDFs as pandas data, scores how accurate each one is, and exports to CSV, Excel or SQLite.

★ 3.8kFree
PIpikepdf/pikepdf

A Python library for reading and writing PDF files, built on the QPDF engine.

★ 2.8kFree
DOeikek/docspell

It reads incoming documents, works out who they are from, and makes the pile searchable.

★ 2.3kFree

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