pdf — independent software & tools

37 independent pdf listings the big search engines bury.

• symaira-ingest

  github · Free · by danieljustus

  Document ingestion + OCR core for the Symaira ecosystem.

• MarkFlow

  github · Free · by huanyu-a

  纯前端、零后端 的 Markdown / HTML 多场景排版与导出工作台。 通过使用本工作台既定的渲染方式，与外部 AI 协作，快捷将内容渲染为 A4 正式文档 · 公众号长图文 · 小红书图文卡片 · 风格化 HTML 画布， 并导出为富文本 / 高清 PNG / 矢量 PDF / Word (.docx) / PPT (.pptx) / 批量 ZIP。

• aarg

  github · Free · by joseym

  Local-first Rust CLI that tailors your resume to a job posting through an adversarial agent loop, and never invents experience you don't have.

• rpic-lang

  github · Free · by milkway

  A modern reimplementation of the pic graphics language in Rust — SVG/PNG/PDF output, GSAP animation, and an 79-element circuit library. Bindings for Python, R and JS/TS.

• doc-html-translate

  github · Free · by SerZhyAle

  Windows CLI/GUI converter: EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, RTF, TXT - Markdown to local HTML, with optional Google Cloud or local Ollama translation

• DocAgent

  github · Free · by XuMingKe-06

  Local-first AI document agent — generate, read, modify, and convert Word/Excel/PPT/PDF/Markdown through natural language conversations.

• @embedpdf/engines

  npm · Free · by bobsingor

  Pluggable runtime layer that abstracts over multiple PDF engines (PDF-ium, Web Workers, mocks, etc.) to provide a unified API for rendering, search, annotation, and other document-level operations in EmbedPDF.

• @embedpdf/pdfium

  npm · Free · by bobsingor

  PDFium WebAssembly for the web platform. This package provides a powerful JavaScript interface to PDFium, enabling high-quality PDF rendering and manipulation directly in web applications.

• jspdf-autotable

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  Generate pdf tables with javascript (jsPDF plugin)

• @keleshteri/pageindex-rag

  npm · Free · by keleshteri

  Vectorless RAG using LLM-driven hierarchical document indexing — PDF and Markdown/Obsidian vault support

• @napi-rs/canvas

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  Canvas for Node.js with skia backend

• officeparser

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  A robust, strictly-typed Node.js and Browser library for parsing office files (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx, .odt, .odp, .ods, .pdf, .rtf, .csv, .md, .html) and generating high-fidelity outputs in Markdown, HTML, CSV, RTF, and RAG-focused chunks.

• pdf2json

  npm · Free · by modesty

  PDF file parser that converts PDF binaries to JSON and text, powered by porting a fork of PDF.JS to Node.js

• pdfjs-dist

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  Generic build of Mozilla's PDF.js library.

• pdfkit

  npm · Free · by blikblum

  A PDF generation library for Node.js

• pdfmake

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript

• unpdf

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  PDF extraction and rendering across all JavaScript runtimes

• slidemason

  github · Free · by Airoxog

  Transform documents into polished presentations quickly using local AI tools without accounts or uploads.

• gbpublisher

  github · Free · by albertomoyano

  gbpublisher es una plataforma cliente-servidor de producción editorial académica, diseñada específicamente para revistas científicas, series académicas y proyectos editoriales institucionales, ofrece un flujo de trabajo moderno, reproducible y estandarizado.

• MIMIGenRec

  github · Free · by Darbabusive353

  ⚙️ Build and train flexible generative recommendation models with modular tools, multi-GPU support, and integration with Hugging Face and LlamaFactory.

• md2pdf

  github · Free · by jado4810

  Typeset Markdown to PDF for publishing

• chordsketch

  github · Free · by koedame

  A Rust implementation of the ChordPro music notation format — parser, renderers, and CLI

• pandoc-novel

  github · Free · by Madhu-Harika

  Novel export configuration for pandoc (Markdown to ePub and PDF)

• bibtex-extraction

  github · Free · by rehanvhora778

  📄 Extract BibTeX entries from PDFs automatically, generating a complete bibliography without manual input or reliance on external APIs.

• template-pandoc-tectonic

  github · Free · by sosiristseng

  Compile Markdown files to beautiful PDF documents by pandoc and tectonic.

• canvas

  npm · Free · by calebhearon

  Canvas graphics API backed by Cairo

• @embedpdf/fonts-sc

  npm · Free · by bobsingor

  Simplified Chinese (GB2312) fallback fonts for EmbedPDF - Noto Sans Hans (5 weights)

• jspdf

  npm · Free · by mrjameshall

  PDF Document creation from JavaScript

• ng2-pdf-viewer

  npm · Free · by vadimdez

  Angular 5+ component for rendering PDF

• pdf-lib

  npm · Free · by hopding

  Create and modify PDF files with JavaScript

• @pdf-lib/standard-fonts

  npm · Free · by hopding

  Metrics for the Standard 14 PDF fonts and their encodings

• pdf-parse

  npm · Free · by mehmet.kozan

  Pure TypeScript, cross-platform module for extracting text, images, and tabular data from PDFs. Run directly in your browser or in Node!

• pdf2pic

  npm · Free · by yakovmeister

  A utility for converting pdf to image formats. Supports different outputs: directly to file, base64 or buffer.

• react-native-pdf

  npm · Free · by wonday

  A react native PDF view component, support ios and android platform

• react-pdf

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images.

• react-pdf-tailwind

  npm · Free · by aanckar

  Use Tailwind CSS to style PDFs created with react-pdf

• @react-pdf-viewer/core

  npm · Free · by phuoc-ng

  A React component to view a PDF document