Productivity & Collaboration · Documents, Notes & Knowledge
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Converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML, images and audio into Markdown in one command.
★ 191kFreeSTStirling-Tools/Stirling-PDFA self-hosted web application for editing, converting and combining PDF files.
★ 94.1kFreeMIopendatalab/MinerUIt converts PDFs into clean Markdown or JSON, keeping headings, tables, equations and reading order.
★ 81.7kFreeDOdocling-project/doclingA document parser that turns PDFs, office files, images and audio into clean structured text.
★ 68.7kFreePApaperless-ngx/paperless-ngxIt reads the words on scans and invoices so they can be searched like email.
★ 46.8kFreePAjgm/pandocConverts any document format into any other in one command, including Markdown to Word and Markdown to PDF.
★ 46.6kFreeMAdatalab-to/markerA command-line converter that turns PDFs into Markdown or structured data with high accuracy.
★ 40.4kFreeOCocrmypdf/OCRmyPDFIt makes a scanned PDF searchable without changing how it looks.
★ 35kFreePYpymupdf/PyMuPDFReads, edits and renders PDFs from Python, quickly.
★ 10.9kFreePDjsvine/pdfplumberPulls 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.
★ 10.7kFreePYpy-pdf/pypdfJoins, splits, locks and reads PDF files from a few lines of Python, with no service involved and nothing uploaded anywhere.
★ 10.2kFreePDpdfcpu/pdfcpuOne downloaded program that validates, merges, splits, shrinks, encrypts, signs, stamps and extracts text and images from PDFs, up to PDF 2.0.
★ 8.7kFreePDpdfarranger/pdfarrangerShows every page of a PDF as a thumbnail that can be dragged, rotated, cropped or deleted.
★ 6kFreeCAcamelot-dev/camelotExtracts tables from PDFs as pandas data, scores how accurate each one is, and exports to CSV, Excel or SQLite.
★ 3.8kFreePIpikepdf/pikepdfA Python library for reading and writing PDF files, built on the QPDF engine.
★ 2.8kFreeDOeikek/docspellIt reads incoming documents, works out who they are from, and makes the pile searchable.
★ 2.3kFreeA second choice: they cover part of this job or are a building block for it.
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