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PDF converter projects on GitHub

Converting PDFs into editable or structured formats.

As of , the most-starred PDF converter projects on GitHub are Stirling-PDF (94.4K stars), MinerU (81.9K stars) and docling (69K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 12 PDF converter repositories with 350.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was Filee, with +297 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+297

Filee

KnifeLemon/Filee · ★ 1.3K

Filee is a free, open-source file converter for Windows, macOS and Linux that handles 180+ formats — images, PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HWP/HWPX, video, audio, e-books, CAD and archives — by letting you drag files onto a floating format menu, all processed locally with no upload.

+65

Stirling-PDF

Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF · ★ 94.4K

Stirling PDF is an open-source PDF editing platform with over 50 tools for editing, merging, splitting, signing, redacting, converting, OCR-ing, and compressing PDFs.

+46

MinerU

opendatalab/MinerU · ★ 81.9K

MinerU is a high-accuracy document parsing engine that converts PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, images and web pages into structured Markdown or JSON, built for LLM, RAG and agent workflows.

+37

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.

The all-time top

12 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

    Stirling-PDF

    Stirling PDF is an open-source PDF editing platform with over 50 tools for editing, merging, splitting, signing, redacting, converting, OCR-ing, and compressing PDFs.

    94.4K
  2. #2 · opendatalab/MinerU

    MinerU

    MinerU is a high-accuracy document parsing engine that converts PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, images and web pages into structured Markdown or JSON, built for LLM, RAG and agent workflows.

    81.9K
  3. #3 · docling-project/docling

    docling

    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.

    69K
  1. 4

    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.

  2. 5

    ConvertX

    19.1KC4illin/ConvertX · TypeScript

    ConvertX is a self-hosted online file converter: you run it on your own server and convert files between 1000+ formats right in the browser.

  3. 6

    bentopdf

    16.1Kalam00000/bentopdf · JavaScript

    BentoPDF is a privacy-first PDF toolkit that lets you merge, edit, convert, and manage PDF files entirely inside your browser, with over 50 tools and no server-side processing of your files.

  4. 7

    gotenberg

    13.3Kgotenberg/gotenberg · Go

    Gotenberg is a Docker-based API that converts documents like HTML, URLs, Markdown and Office files into PDFs, and can also merge, split, watermark and screenshot them.

  5. 8

    PDFPatcher

    12.7Kwmjordan/PDFPatcher · C#

    PDFPatcher (PDF 补丁丁) is an all-in-one PDF toolbox for Windows that lets you edit bookmarks, crop/rotate pages, remove PDF restrictions, merge or split documents, extract images, convert PDF pages to images, and inspect the internal structure of a PDF file.

  6. 9

    ReLaXed

    11.8KRelaxedJS/ReLaXed · JavaScript

    ReLaXed is a tool that lets you write documents in Pug or HTML and turns them into PDF files, so you can lay things out with CSS and JavaScript instead of fighting LaTeX or a GUI editor.

  7. 10

    Filee

    1.3KKnifeLemon/Filee · C#

    Filee is a free, open-source file converter for Windows, macOS and Linux that handles 180+ formats — images, PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HWP/HWPX, video, audio, e-books, CAD and archives — by letting you drag files onto a floating format menu, all processed locally with no upload.

  8. 11

    revpdf-release

    1KPawandeep-prog/revpdf-release

    RevPDF is a fast, native, privacy-focused offline PDF editor that can split, merge, compress, convert PDF pages to images, and build PDFs from images. This repository hosts the official release binaries for Linux, macOS, Windows, and Android.

  9. 12

    MiniPdf

    504mini-software/MiniPdf · C#

    MiniPdf is a family of lightweight, fast, native libraries and CLI tools that convert Office documents (XLSX, DOCX, PPTX) to PDF, with implementations for .NET (C#), Rust, Java, Python, Node.js and Go.

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