Document tools
Tools that read, convert or organize documents such as PDFs and scanned pages, including text recognition (OCR). This page lists 22 document tools; the latest additions are DeepTutor, RAGFlow and OpenMAIC. Open any project to see what it lets you do, what its creator says you need and its original source.
Projects to explore
- SCM Search every photo and video frame on your Mac by describing it
SCM (Screen Memories) lets you find photos and moments inside videos on your Mac by typing what you remember, such as a scene or a sign you saw.
- Anthropic skills Example folders that teach Claude repeatable tasks
Add ready-made instruction folders so Claude handles tasks like PDFs, slides and brand-styled documents the same way each time.
- Unlimited-OCR Read text from page images and whole PDFs in one pass
Turn photos of documents, multi-page scans and PDFs into text you can copy and search.
- Claude-Code-Game-Studios run your game project with a 49-agent AI studio
Turn Claude Code into an organized game team that plans, designs, codes and reviews your game with you.
- Univer Build your own spreadsheet or document editor for an AI app
Univer is an open-source software toolkit (SDK) for embedding spreadsheet, document and presentation editing into your own product, rather than a finished app you open.
- DeepTutor Study your own documents with a personal AI tutor
Read documents with page-by-page citations, practice daily and get video lessons from an AI tutor.
- RAGFlow Ask questions about your documents and get cited answers
Upload documents and ask questions with traceable citations.
- Open Notebook Chat with, search and make podcasts from research
Collect PDFs, videos and web pages, then search, chat and make podcasts from them.
- MarkItDown Convert PDFs, Word files and slides into plain Markdown
Turn PDFs, Word files, slides, spreadsheets, images and audio into Markdown text that an AI model can read.
- Paperless-ngx Turn paper piles into a searchable document archive
Scan or upload bills, receipts and contracts and turn them into an archive you can search by any word inside them.
- Stirling-PDF Edit, sign, and convert PDFs without uploading them anywhere
Stirling PDF is a toolbox of 50+ PDF tools: edit, merge, split, sign, redact (permanently black out text), convert, compress, and OCR (turn scanned pages into searchable text).
- WeKnora Turn a pile of documents into something you can question
You load in documents and it builds a knowledge base you can ask questions of in plain language, plus an agent that works through multi-step questions and a wiki it keeps updated as the documents change.
- TencentDB-Agent-Memory Share reusable memory across agents
Share conversation memories, skills, documents, and code maps with AI agents.
- OpenMAIC Turn any topic into an interactive AI classroom
Turn a topic or document into slides, quizzes and discussions led by AI teachers.
- Unlimited-OCR Download and run the Baidu OCR model on page images and PDFs
Turn photos of documents, multi-page scans and PDFs into text you can copy and search.
- Unlimited-OCR-2 Turn long multi-page documents into text
Convert page images of long documents into text, with all pages read together in one request.
- indra-ocr Read scanned pages (1.25M recognizer)
Turn scanned PDFs and images into searchable text, Markdown, or JSON with boxes.
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Give a model a million tokens of text and images at once
Give a model up to a million tokens of text and images in one go, such as a long agent session or a large pile of input, and get text back.
- Qwen-2.5-1B-RLCD Pull structured data out of documents quickly on a Mac
Sort a document into fixed answers, such as a priority level or a yes-or-no flag, and get back valid JSON in one quick step on an Apple Silicon Mac.
- NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-BF16 Ask about documents and video
Ask questions about document images, pictures and video and get text answers; it needs NVIDIA GPU servers, so it suits developers.
- MiniCPM-OCR-1.0 Turn scans and PDFs into editable text (1.3B)
Turn photos, scans and PDFs of Chinese or English documents into editable text, tables and formulas.
- TeleOCR Turn document scans and photos into structured text
TeleOCR is a vision-language model of about 1.2 billion parameters (learned settings) for reading documents.
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