PDF & documents

PyMuPDF is a high-performance Python library for extracting, analyzing, converting and manipulating PDF and other documents, built on the MuPDF engine.

pdf.js is an open-source PDF reader library written in JavaScript that parses and renders PDF files in the browser using HTML5, under the Apache-2.0 license.

iText Core is an open-source Java library for creating, editing, signing and inspecting PDF documents, with a built-in layout engine and PDF/A and PDF/UA support.

Docling is an MIT-licensed Python library that parses PDF, DOCX, PPTX, HTML and many other documents into structured data ready for generative AI pipelines.

PDFium is an open-source PDF library from Chromium for reading, parsing and rendering PDF files in C++ applications.

MuPDF is an open-source library for viewing and converting PDF, XPS and e-book documents, with a lightweight footprint for developers.

Apache Tika is an open-source Java library and toolkit that detects file types and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand formats, including PDF, PPT and XLS.

Apache PDFBox is an open-source Java library for creating, manipulating and extracting content from PDF documents in Java applications.