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PDF processing projects on GitHub

General-purpose PDF manipulation: parsing, rendering, and editing

As of , the most-starred PDF processing projects on GitHub are pdfcraft (15.1K stars), pypdf (10.3K stars) and VI-Translate (702 stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 PDF processing repositories with 26.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was pdfcraft, with +550 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+550

pdfcraft

storytold/pdfcraft · ★ 15.1K

PrintCraft (the pdfcraft project) is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat, built entirely in pure Rust. It lets you read, organize, combine, split and secure PDFs in a fast native app.

+4

VI-Translate

breslee1707/VI-Translate · ★ 702

PDF Translate is an open-source desktop and Android app that translates PDF documents into Vietnamese and 35 other Latin-script languages while keeping the original layout, formulas, tables, and images intact.

+2

pypdf

py-pdf/pypdf · ★ 10.3K

A free and open-source pure-python PDF library: it splits, merges, crops and transforms the pages of PDF files, and can add custom data, viewing options and passwords to them.

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5 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · storytold/pdfcraft

    pdfcraft

    PrintCraft (the pdfcraft project) is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat, built entirely in pure Rust. It lets you read, organize, combine, split and secure PDFs in a fast native app.

    15.1K
  2. #2 · py-pdf/pypdf

    pypdf

    A free and open-source pure-python PDF library: it splits, merges, crops and transforms the pages of PDF files, and can add custom data, viewing options and passwords to them.

    10.3K
  3. #3 · breslee1707/VI-Translate

    VI-Translate

    PDF Translate is an open-source desktop and Android app that translates PDF documents into Vietnamese and 35 other Latin-script languages while keeping the original layout, formulas, tables, and images intact.

    702
  1. 4

    nativePDF-structurer

    409crunz-ai/nativePDF-structurer · Python

    NativePDF Structurer converts large digital-native PDFs — equipment manuals, repair manuals, technical catalogs — into structured Markdown, images and table CSVs without using OCR or any machine-learning model, so long vendor documents can reliably feed into RAG pipelines.

  2. 5

    TeamSync-PDF-Viewer

    245angelbot-ai/TeamSync-PDF-Viewer · TypeScript

    TeamSync PDF Viewer is an open-source, 100% client-side PDF viewer SDK for React apps, featuring annotations, secure redaction, forensic watermarking, and search, built on WebAssembly (PDF.js + pdf-lib).

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