Open-source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat
5 open-source projects that do what Adobe Acrobat does. Picked or featured by Willet; numbers are from GitHub.
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| Project | What it does | Stars | License | Last commit | Self-hostable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Python library and CLI that converts documents into structured data for AI | 69.2k | MIT | No | ||
| PDF parser that outputs Markdown, JSON and HTML, plus PDF auto-tagging | 29.8k | Apache-2.0 | No | ||
| PDF and image-to-Markdown converter built on a 7B vision-language model | 19.8k | Apache-2.0 | No | ||
| Rust library that classifies PDFs and extracts their text as Markdown | 19.7k | MIT | No | ||
| Local PDF and office document parser with OCR and bounding boxes | 12.9k | Apache-2.0 | No |