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Document-parsing projects on GitHub

Extracting structured content from PDFs, scans, and office documents.

As of , the most-starred Document-parsing projects on GitHub are markitdown (190.8K stars), ragflow (92.4K stars) and PaddleOCR (91.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 Document-parsing repositories with 593.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was markitdown, with +160 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+160

markitdown

microsoft/markitdown · ★ 190.8K

MarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility that converts files like PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, images, audio, HTML, CSV/JSON/XML, ZIP archives, EPubs and even YouTube URLs into Markdown, designed for feeding documents into LLMs and text analysis pipelines.

+46

PaddleOCR

PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR · ★ 91.3K

PaddleOCR is an OCR and document AI toolkit that converts PDFs and images into structured, LLM-ready data (JSON or Markdown), supporting over 100 languages.

+45

ragflow

infiniflow/ragflow · ★ 92.4K

RAGFlow is an open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that combines RAG with Agent capabilities to build a context layer for LLMs, turning complex enterprise data into production-ready AI systems.

+43

docling

docling-project/docling · ★ 69K

Docling parses diverse document formats such as PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML and more, turning them into a unified representation ready for generative AI pipelines.

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13 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · microsoft/markitdown

    markitdown

    MarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility that converts files like PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, images, audio, HTML, CSV/JSON/XML, ZIP archives, EPubs and even YouTube URLs into Markdown, designed for feeding documents into LLMs and text analysis pipelines.

    190.8K
  2. #2 · infiniflow/ragflow

    ragflow

    RAGFlow is an open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that combines RAG with Agent capabilities to build a context layer for LLMs, turning complex enterprise data into production-ready AI systems.

    92.4K
  3. #3 · PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

    PaddleOCR

    PaddleOCR is an OCR and document AI toolkit that converts PDFs and images into structured, LLM-ready data (JSON or Markdown), supporting over 100 languages.

    91.3K
  1. 4

    docling

    69Kdocling-project/docling · Python

    Docling parses diverse document formats such as PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML and more, turning them into a unified representation ready for generative AI pipelines.

  2. 5

    marker

    40.5Kdatalab-to/marker · Python

    Marker is a document conversion tool that turns PDFs (and other document types) into markdown, JSON, HTML, or chunked output quickly and accurately, extracting tables, equations, forms, and images along the way.

  3. 6

    opendataloader-pdf

    29.7Kopendataloader-project/opendataloader-pdf · Java

    An open-source PDF parser built for AI pipelines: it turns PDFs into Markdown, JSON (with bounding boxes) and HTML, and can auto-tag untagged PDFs into screen-reader-ready Tagged PDFs.

  4. 7

    kotaemon

    25.8KCinnamon/kotaemon · Python

    Kotaemon is an open-source RAG tool for chatting with your documents: a clean web UI where you ask questions about your own files, serving both end users and developers.

  5. 8

    unstructured

    15.6KUnstructured-IO/unstructured · HTML

    Unstructured is an open-source ETL toolkit that converts complex documents like PDFs, Word docs, HTML and images into clean, structured data (JSON) ready for LLMs, RAG pipelines and vector databases.

  6. 9

    easy-dataset

    15KConardLi/easy-dataset · JavaScript

    Easy Dataset is an app that turns domain documents (PDF, Markdown, DOCX, TXT, EPUB) into structured datasets for LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and model evaluation. It extracts questions from your text, generates answers with an LLM, and exports ready-to-use training data.

  7. 10

    zerox

    12.3Kgetomni-ai/zerox · TypeScript

    Zerox is an open-source OCR and document-extraction tool powered by vision models: give it a PDF, DOCX or image and it returns Markdown — or structured data if you provide a schema.

  8. 11

    PDF-Extract-Kit

    10Kopendatalab/PDF-Extract-Kit · Python

    PDF-Extract-Kit is an open-source Python toolkit that bundles state-of-the-art models for layout detection, formula detection, formula recognition, OCR, and table recognition to pull high-quality content out of complex PDF documents.

  9. 12

    ParseBench

    603run-llama/ParseBench · Python

    ParseBench is a benchmark that measures how well document parsing tools (OCR engines, VLMs, commercial parsing APIs) convert PDFs into structured output that AI agents can reliably act on, rather than just text that looks similar to the original.

  10. 13

    paper-docx

    126paper-instruments/paper-docx · Python

    paper-docx is an agent-safe fork of python-docx for creating and editing Microsoft Word (.docx) documents, built to refuse unsupported operations instead of silently corrupting files.

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