pdf-reader — open-source software health

crates.io · PyPI · npm +5

96Exceptionalhealth index

The fastest PDF library for Python and Rust. Text extraction, image extraction, markdown conversion, PDF creation & editing. 0.8ms mean, 5× faster than industry leaders, 100% pass rate on 3,830 PDFs. MIT/Apache-2.0.

Rust★ 1,089↓ 487K/moOct 21, 2026

Apache-2.0Oct 21, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

npm · crates.io

90Excellenthealth index

SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp

Give your AI agent eyes for PDFs — structured text, tables, OCR, visual evidence, and page-level citations via MCP. Native Rust, local-first.

TypeScript · Rust★ 933↓ 1,201/moSep 18, 2026

MITSep 18, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

PyPI

90Excellenthealth index

jztan/pdf-mcp

An MCP server that gives your AI agent agentic RAG over your PDFs, one file or a whole folder: hybrid semantic + keyword search, selective page reads, tables, images, OCR, chart data, and multi-column/CJK layouts. The agent decides when to search; pdf-mcp does the retrieval.

Python★ 134↓ 6,229/moSep 15, 2026

MITSep 15, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

npm

88Excellenthealth index

intbot/ng2-pdfjs-viewer

#1 Angular PDF viewer

JavaScript · Fluent★ 253↓ 174.6K/moSep 17, 2026

Apache-2.0Sep 17, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

Packagist

87Excellenthealth index

PrinsFrank/pdfparser

PHP library to read and extract text & images from PDFs - Fast & Low memory - Built from scratch

PHP★ 171↓ 9,237/moSep 8, 2026

MITSep 8, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

crates.io

78Goodhealth index

fschutt/printpdf

Rust / WASM library for reading, writing and rendering PDF

Rust★ 1,112↓ 417K/moSep 9, 2026

MITSep 9, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

npm

78Goodhealth index

xonaman/nodejs-pdfium-native

Native Node.js bindings for PDFium

C++ · TypeScript · C★ 4↓ 40.8K/moSep 10, 2026

MITSep 10, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

75Goodhealth index

unidoc/unipdf

Golang PDF library for creating and processing PDF files (pure go)

Go★ 3,118Sep 20, 2026

Custom licenseSep 20, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

Packagist

67Goodhealth index

dskripchenko/php-pdf

Pure-PHP, MIT-licensed PDF toolkit: generate, read & merge PDFs — HTML/CSS input, barcodes, charts, TTF embedding, AcroForm, PKCS#7 signing, PDF/A & PDF/X. A dependency-free alternative to mpdf, TCPDF, and the proprietary FPDI.

PHP★ 9↓ 2,650/moOct 1, 2026

MITOct 1, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

NuGet

63Moderatehealth index