run-llama/liteparseGitHub
calls pdf_oxide “Rust library with similar parsing plus PDF editing; choose it if you also need creation/editing.”
A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser
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yfedoseev/pdf_oxide Alternatives
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pymupdf/PyMuPDFGitHub
calls pdf_oxide “Choose for a Rust-based PDF library with faster text/image extraction and permissive Apache-2.0 license, if AGPL of PyMuPDF is a concern and you don't need MuPDF's rendering.”
PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
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firecrawl/pdf-inspectorGitHub
calls pdf_oxide “choose it for a very fast Python/Rust PDF library that also creates/edits PDFs, if you don't need classification.”
Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions.
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py-pdf/pypdfGitHub
calls pdf_oxide “Rust-based PDF library with Python bindings; choose for performance-critical manipulation and extraction.”
A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
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datalab-to/markerGitHub
calls pdf_oxide “When you need extremely fast text extraction from simple born-digital PDFs.”
Convert PDF to markdown + JSON quickly with high accuracy
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xberg-io/xbergGitHub
calls pdf_oxide “when you need maximum-speed PDF text/image extraction/creation in Rust or Python and handle only PDFs.”
A polyglot document intelligence framework with a Rust core. Extract text, metadata, images, and structured data from 101 formats (115 file extensions) plus code intelligence for 371 code languages. 15 language bindings — Rust, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, PHP, Elixir, C#, TypeScript — plus CLI, REST API, and MCP server.
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