Open-source pdf software
747 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged pdf, ranked by how closely pdf is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
747 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenDCAI/Paper2Any Paper2Any is an open-source Python application that turns research papers, text, or topics into editable research figures, technical route … | 59 | 2797 | active |
| codedogQBY/ReadAny ReadAny is a local-first, AI-powered cross-platform e-book reader for desktop and mobile. It combines RAG-based chat with your books, hybri… | 79 | 2738 | active |
| szTheory/exifcleaner ExifCleaner is a free, open-source cross-platform desktop GUI app that strips EXIF and other metadata from images, videos, and PDFs using E… | 98 | 2717 | active |
| zubair-trabzada/ai-marketing-claude A suite of 15 marketing skills for Claude Code that runs parallel subagents to audit websites, generate copy, email sequences, ad creatives… | 43 | 2714 | active |
| freedmand/semantra-python Semantra is a command-line tool that semantically indexes text and PDF documents and launches a local web application for querying them by … | 31 | 2713 | active |
| naiveHobo/InvoiceNet InvoiceNet is a deep neural network application with a GUI for extracting structured information from invoice documents in PDF, JPG, and PN… | 32 | 2696 | active |
| openags/paper-search-mcp A Python-based MCP server, CLI, and Claude Code skill for searching and downloading academic papers from open sources like arXiv, PubMed, a… | 63 | 2684 | active |
| LigphiDonk/academic-figure-generator A self-hosted AI-powered platform that generates high-quality academic paper figures: users upload a paper (PDF/DOCX/TXT), Claude analyzes … | 56 | 2674 | active |
| papersgpt/papersgpt-for-zotero PapersGPT is a Zotero plugin that lets researchers chat with single PDFs, multiple documents, or their entire library using cloud LLMs (Cha… | 82 | 2653 | active |
| vsch/flexmark-java flexmark-java is a fast, extensible Java parser for CommonMark/Markdown that produces a source-position-aware AST and renders HTML, with em… | 36 | 2641 | stable |
| neilotoole/sq sq is a command-line data wrangling tool that provides jq-style querying over SQL databases and document formats like CSV, Excel, and JSON.… | 96 | 2567 | active |
| sismics/docs Teedy (formerly Sismics Docs) is an open-source, lightweight document management system (DMS) for individuals and businesses. It offers OCR… | 63 | 2566 | active |
| ZenNotes/zennotes ZenNotes is a keyboard-first, local-first Markdown notes application with real Vim motions, split panes, diagrams (Mermaid, TikZ, KaTeX mat… | 78 | 2547 | active |
| K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer An AI-powered deep research and scientific writing tool that generates publication-ready papers, reports, posters, grant proposals, and lit… | 83 | 2493 | active |
| learnhouse/learnhouse LearnHouse is a next-generation open-source learning management system (LMS) for creating, sharing, and selling educational content. It com… | 100 | 2404 | active |
| stephengpope/no-code-architects-toolkit A self-hostable Flask-based API that consolidates common media processing tasks—video editing, captioning, audio conversion, transcription,… | 47 | 2345 | active |
| eikek/docspell Docspell is a self-hosted document management system (DMS) for organizing scanned papers, e-mails, and other files. It automates metadata t… | 68 | 2338 | active |
| saifyxpro/HeadlessX HeadlessX is a self-hosted browser automation and web scraping platform powered by Camoufox (a C++-patched Firefox) to bypass anti-bot syst… | 72 | 2321 | active |
| Future-Scholars/paperlib Paperlib is an open-source, cross-platform desktop application for managing academic papers, built with TypeScript and Electron. It scrapes… | 54 | 2297 | active |
| raphaelmansuy/edgequake EdgeQuake is a high-performance Graph-RAG framework written in Rust, inspired by LightRAG, that transforms documents (PDFs, markdown, text)… | 80 | 2277 | active |
| opendatalab/DocLayout-YOLO DocLayout-YOLO is a real-time YOLO-v10-based model for detecting document layout elements (text blocks, tables, figures, etc.) in diverse d… | 26 | 2277 | active |
| 864381832/xJavaFxTool xJavaFxTool is a cross-platform desktop application built with JavaFX that bundles dozens of small developer utilities, including encoding … | 47 | 2237 | active |
| atomicstrata/llm-wiki-compiler llmwiki is a Node.js CLI knowledge compiler that turns raw sources (papers, docs, notes, PDFs, URLs) into an interlinked, citation-traceabl… | 81 | 2169 | active |
| btahir/open-deep-research An open-source web application that replicates Gemini's Deep Research by searching the web, extracting page content, and generating AI-writ… | 10 | 2142 | active |
| DanBloomberg/leptonica Leptonica is an open-source C library providing a broad set of image processing and image analysis operations, with a focus on document ima… | 74 | 2092 | stable |
| NanoNets/docext docext is an on-premises document intelligence toolkit powered by vision-language models, offering OCR-free structured data extraction, PDF… | 47 | 2086 | active |
| LinwoodDev/Butterfly Butterfly is a powerful, minimalistic, open-source note-taking app built with Flutter that supports drawing, handwriting, and rich text on … | 95 | 2067 | active |
| rememberber/MooTool MooTool is an all-in-one desktop developer toolbox offering dozens of handy utilities in a single GUI app, including JSON formatting, times… | 98 | 2051 | active |
| CaviraOSS/PageLM PageLM is an open-source, AI-powered education platform inspired by NotebookLM that transforms study materials like PDFs and notes into int… | 62 | 2028 | active |
| SaiAkhil066/CORTEX-AI-SUPER-RAG CORTEX RAG is a local-first, agentic retrieval-augmented generation application that lets users upload PDFs and ask questions with cited an… | 64 | 1973 | active |
| asc-lab/dotnetcore-microservices-poc A proof-of-concept insurance sales system built with .NET 8 using a microservices architecture, demonstrating CQRS with MediatR, service di… | 75 | 1938 | active |
| alexpinel/Dot Dot is a standalone Electron desktop application for chatting with your documents using fully local LLMs and Retrieval Augmented Generation… | 16 | 1915 | active |
| ivanfioravanti/chatbot-ollama An open-source web-based chat UI for Ollama, forked from chatbot-ui, that lets users chat with locally hosted LLMs. It supports document (P… | 44 | 1895 | active |
| bhaskatripathi/pdfGPT pdfGPT is an open-source Python application that lets users chat with the contents of PDF files using GPT capabilities. It implements a sim… | 59 | 7162 | maintenance |
| nazdridoy/kokoro-tts A Python CLI text-to-speech tool built on the Kokoro-82M model that converts text, EPUB, PDF, and TXT inputs into natural-sounding speech w… | 82 | 1889 | active |
| emweb/wt Wt is a C++ web toolkit for building highly interactive web applications using a widget-based GUI abstraction, without writing JavaScript. … | 98 | 1859 | stable |
| FuzzyIdeas/Clop Clop is a macOS menu bar application that automatically optimises images, videos, and PDFs as soon as they are copied to the clipboard, min… | 99 | 1838 | active |
| githubXiaowangzi/NP-Manager NP-Manager is an Android application for APK, DEX, JAR, Smali, PDF, and media file manipulation. It provides reverse-engineering features s… | 75 | 1818 | active |
| delibae/claude-prism ClaudePrism is an open-source, offline-first desktop application for scientific and academic writing, built with Tauri 2 and Rust. It combi… | 73 | 1813 | active |
| Feather-2/Burner-X Paper Burner X is a browser-based AI workstation for processing, translating, and analyzing academic documents like PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, and E… | 63 | 1783 | active |
| Syncfusion Flutter Widgets Syncfusion's Flutter widgets libraries providing high-quality UI widgets and file-format packages for building rich applications for iOS, A… | 78 | 1782 | active |
| gettalong/kramdown kramdown is a fast, pure-Ruby library for parsing and converting a superset of Markdown (including GFM and PHP Markdown Extra extensions) t… | 48 | 1782 | stable |
| neuml/paperai paperai is an AI application for medical and scientific papers that runs bulk LLM inference and RAG pipelines over article repositories to … | 63 | 1781 | active |
| crazyykhllc-bit/CyberPPT CyberPPT is a Codex Skill that converts documents, research materials, and business data into high-density, editable, consulting-style Powe… | 52 | 1770 | active |
| cubewhy/skid-homework A browser-based, AI-powered homework solver built with Next.js that sends images and PDFs of homework problems to a Gemini or OpenAI-compat… | 60 | 1752 | active |
| sanjib-sen/WebLaTex WebLaTex is a self-hosted, browser-based LaTeX editing environment built on VS Code and GitHub Codespaces/dev containers, bundling TeX Live… | 32 | 1750 | active |
| NotebookLM Book Importer A Python CLI tool that automatically downloads books from Z-Library and uploads them to Google NotebookLM in one command. It uses Playwrigh… | 41 | 1739 | active |
| jesselau76/ebook-GPT-translator A Python CLI and GUI tool that translates ebooks (TXT, EPUB, DOCX, PDF, optional MOBI) using LLM providers like OpenAI, Azure, Codex, Claud… | 60 | 1735 | active |
| juliye2025/evil-read-arxiv A collection of Claude Code / OpenAI Codex skills plus a Next.js web app that automates research paper discovery, analysis, and note-taking… | 58 | 1735 | active |
| lifan0127/ai-research-assistant Aria is a Zotero plugin that brings GPT-powered AI assistance to reference management, letting researchers chat with their library items, P… | 24 | 1729 | active |
| standardebooks/tools The Standard Ebooks toolset, a Python-based collection of command-line tools for producing, processing, and building EPUB3 ebook files. Ins… | 77 | 1681 | active |
| chrismattmann/tika-python Tika-Python is a Python client library for Apache Tika's REST services, enabling document parsing, text extraction, and MIME detection nati… | 83 | 1673 | active |
| nicobailon/pi-web-access A TypeScript extension for the Pi coding agent that adds web search, URL content extraction, GitHub repo cloning, PDF extraction, and YouTu… | 84 | 1663 | active |
| kotaro-kinoshita/yomitoku YomiToku is an AI-powered document image analysis engine specialized for Japanese, providing full-text OCR, layout analysis, table structur… | 88 | 1649 | active |
| ariacom/Seal-Report Seal Report & Task is an open-source (MIT) reporting and business intelligence framework written in C# for .NET, enabling users to build, p… | 89 | 1637 | active |
| umodoc/editor Umo Editor is an open-source document editor component built on Vue3 and Tiptap3 that provides a Microsoft Word-like online editing experie… | 68 | 1612 | active |
| LYiHub/mad-professor-public A desktop AI companion application for reading academic papers, built with PyQt6. It combines PDF parsing and translation, RAG-based retrie… | 24 | 1603 | active |
| enoch3712/ExtractThinker ExtractThinker is a Python document intelligence library that uses LLMs to extract and classify structured data from documents like PDFs, i… | 71 | 1601 | active |
| maqi1520/mdx-notes MDX Notes is a cross-platform Markdown note-taking application and WeChat Official Account typesetting editor built with MDX, Next.js, and … | 61 | 1595 | active |
| NousResearch/autonovel An autonomous AI agent pipeline that writes, revises, evaluates, typesets, illustrates, and narrates a complete novel from a seed concept. … | 44 | 1590 | active |
| Layout Parser LayoutParser is a Python toolkit for deep learning based document image analysis, offering unified APIs for layout detection models, layout… | 23 | 5776 | maintenance |
| robocorp/rpaframework RPA Framework is a collection of open-source Python libraries and tools for Robotic Process Automation, usable from both Robot Framework an… | 94 | 1570 | active |
| ecmadao/hacknical Hacknical is a web application that analyzes a GitHub user's data (contributions, commits, languages, repos) and helps generate a better de… | 77 | 1543 | active |
| emcf/thepipe thepipe is a Python package and API that extracts clean markdown, multimodal media, and structured data from tricky documents like PDFs, Wo… | 80 | 1529 | active |
| import-ai/omnibox OmniBox is a cross-platform, self-hostable AI knowledge hub that lets users collect webpages, files, and voice notes, then parse, index, an… | 89 | 1527 | active |
| Open-Source-Legal/OpenContracts OpenContracts is a self-hosted, MIT-licensed document intelligence platform that turns document repositories into a programmable citation g… | 90 | 1508 | active |
| jonaswinkler/paperless-ng Paperless-ng is a self-hosted document management system that scans, OCRs, indexes, and archives physical documents with full-text search a… | 10 | 5408 | maintenance |
| morsoli/aimangastudio AIMangaStudio is a web application that uses AI (Google GenAI) to create manga/comics end-to-end, including script generation, storyboard l… | 59 | 1479 | active |
| laochiangx/Common.Utility A large collection of C# utility and helper classes covering common .NET development tasks such as Excel/CSV/PDF handling, HTTP requests, J… | 32 | 5300 | maintenance |
| Topdu/OpenOCR OpenOCR is an open-source Python toolkit for general OCR research and applications, covering text detection and recognition, formula and ta… | 58 | 1464 | active |
| p2r3/beheader A command-line tool that generates polyglot files - single files that are simultaneously valid images, videos, PDFs, ZIP archives, and HTML… | 46 | 1461 | active |
| alibaba/Logics-Parsing Logics-Parsing is an end-to-end document parsing model from Alibaba that converts document images into structured output using a single mul… | 61 | 1460 | active |
| hanxi/cups-web A web-based print management application built on CUPS that turns a home USB printer into an always-available network print service. It run… | 84 | 1452 | active |
| Nutlope/pdftochat PDFToChat is an open-source Next.js web application that lets users upload PDFs and chat with them using AI. It uses Together AI's Mixtral … | 65 | 1443 | active |
| zstar1003/ragflow-plus Ragflow-Plus is a fork of Ragflow, an open-source RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) platform, enhanced for practical Chinese-language us… | 66 | 1437 | active |
| Skardyy/mcat Mcat is a Rust-based terminal tool that parses, converts, and previews files such as images, videos, PDFs, DOCX, HTML, and Markdown directl… | 82 | 1424 | active |
| 3xxx/engineercms EngineerCMS is a self-hosted web-based knowledge management system for engineers, built in Go on the Beego framework. It manages personal a… | 80 | 1421 | active |
| zubair-trabzada/ai-sales-team-claude A collection of 14 Claude Code skills and 5 parallel agents that turn Claude Code into an AI-powered sales team. It researches prospects, q… | 45 | 1404 | active |
| transmute-app/transmute Transmute is a self-hosted web application for converting and compressing files, supporting images, video, audio, JSON, Excel, PDF and more… | 81 | 1395 | active |
| okfn-brasil/querido-diario Querido Diário is an open-source project by Open Knowledge Brasil that scrapes and aggregates Brazilian municipal official gazettes (diário… | 75 | 1391 | active |
| lamm-mit/PDF2Audio A Gradio-based web application that converts PDF documents into audio podcasts, lectures, and summaries using OpenAI GPT models for text ge… | 27 | 1384 | active |
| OpnTec/fashionmaker Valentina (fashionmaker) is a cross-platform desktop patternmaking program for fashion designers to create and model clothing patterns. It … | 32 | 1339 | active |
| ChaokunHong/MetaScreener MetaScreener is an open-source AI tool that automates title/abstract and full-text PDF screening for systematic reviews using an ensemble o… | 65 | 1336 | active |
| bevibing/tutor-skills A pair of Claude Code skills that convert documents (PDF, MD, HTML, EPUB) or source codebases into structured Obsidian study vaults with in… | 43 | 1333 | active |
| ttop32/MouseTooltipTranslator A browser extension (Chrome, Edge, Firefox) that translates any text you hover over or select, showing an inline tooltip. It also supports … | 90 | 1332 | active |
| wbopan/moffee moffee is an open-source slide maker that transforms Markdown documents into clean, professional slide decks, handling layout, pagination, … | 53 | 1329 | active |
| XWiki XWiki Platform is a generic open-source enterprise wiki platform written in Java that offers runtime services for collaborative application… | 94 | 1314 | stable |
| StarlightSearch/EmbedAnything EmbedAnything is a high-performance, memory-safe embedding pipeline written in Rust (with Python bindings) that generates embeddings from t… | 86 | 1309 | active |
| huangkiki/dailypaper-skills A set of Claude Code skills that automates a daily research paper pipeline: fetching new papers from HuggingFace Daily, Trending, and arXiv… | 60 | 1301 | active |
| DavidVentura/offline-translator An Android app that translates text, PDF/ODT documents, and images entirely offline using Firefox translation models on-device. It also off… | 86 | 1277 | active |
| jonexaiorg/jonex Jonex is an end-to-end, self-hosted AI knowledge platform combining a multimodal parsing engine (documents, video, images) with an ontology… | 57 | 1267 | active |
| taleshape-com/shaper Shaper is an open-source, SQL-first data visualization application powered by DuckDB that lets users build dashboards, reports, and data ex… | 83 | 1259 | active |
| taranis-ai/taranis-ai Taranis AI is a self-hosted open-source OSINT platform that collects news articles from web sources and uses NLP/AI to enrich, cluster, and… | 93 | 1228 | active |
| gabrielchua/RAGxplorer RAGxplorer is a Python library and hosted Streamlit app for visualizing Retrieval Augmented Generation pipelines. It chunks PDFs, embeds th… | 17 | 1221 | active |
| NyxTides/ppt-image-first A conversation-first, image-first PPT workflow skill for AI coding CLIs (Codex, Claude Code, Opencode) that turns vague presentation reques… | 48 | 1219 | active |
| tonyqinatcmu/SlideBot-AI SlideBot AI is an AI-powered presentation generator that turns a topic, outline, or uploaded materials (documents, spreadsheets, meeting re… | 42 | 1216 | active |
| frotms/PaddleOCR2Pytorch A PyTorch port of PaddleOCR that lets you run PaddleOCR-trained models (detection, recognition, and document structure parsing) without the… | 70 | 1213 | active |
| Open Semantic Search An open-source integrated search server and ETL framework for processing, analyzing, and exploring large document collections. It combines … | 36 | 1213 | active |
| Morgensonne/EditDeck EditDeck is an end-to-end pipeline that turns plain-language requirements into structured slide outlines, rendered slide images, standard P… | 47 | 1212 | active |
| RuoYi WMS RuoYi-WMS is an open-source warehouse management system (WMS) built on the RuoYi framework with a Spring Boot 3 / JDK 17 backend and Vue + … | 62 | 1211 | active |