pdf-reader — open-source software health

crates.io · PyPI · npm +5

93Exceptionalhealth 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★ 1,015↓ 391.7K/moSep 5, 2026

Apache-2.0Sep 5, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

npm

90Excellenthealth index

intbot/ng2-pdfjs-viewer

#1 Angular PDF viewer

JavaScript · Fluent★ 253↓ 213.2K/moAug 7, 2026

Apache-2.0Aug 7, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

Packagist

86Excellenthealth index

PrinsFrank/pdfparser

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

PHP★ 163↓ 3,925/moJul 15, 2026

MITJul 15, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

PyPI

81Excellenthealth index

jztan/pdf-mcp

An MCP server that lets Claude Code and other AI agents work through large PDFs without overflowing their context — search by meaning or keyword, read only the pages that matter, and cleanly pull out tables, images, and scanned text, even from multi-column and Japanese layouts.

Python★ 91↓ 8,068/moAug 1, 2026

MITAug 1, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

npm

75Goodhealth index

xonaman/nodejs-pdfium-native

Native Node.js bindings for PDFium

C++ · C · TypeScript★ 3↓ 8,650/moJul 17, 2026

MITJul 17, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

crates.io

69Goodhealth index

fschutt/printpdf

Rust / WASM library for reading, writing and rendering PDF