# Tools

> Every listed resource, editors’ picks first. The filters below can be combined.

- Search: append `?q=<keywords>` to the URL. Separate several keywords with spaces; all of them must match. Matches name, repository, tags, professions, description and README.
- Filter by type: append `?type=<cli|skill|plugin|mcp>` to the URL.
- Filter by profession: append `?profession=<profession id>` to the URL. Separate several ids with commas; a resource matches when it suits any of them. Ids are listed at https://hebbmind.com/api/v1/professions
- Filter by tag: append `?tag=<tag>` to the URL. Separate several tags with commas; a resource must carry all of them. Tags are listed at https://hebbmind.com/api/v1/tags

Resources for ML / AI or Finance / Accounting, Tagged `python`: 55 items.

> - ML / AI: Model training, evaluation and LLM application development.
> - Finance / Accounting: Bookkeeping, reconciliation, financial statements, budgets and tax.

- [MarkItDown-MCP](https://hebbmind.com/de/mcp/markitdown-mcp.md): [MCP] From Microsoft: converts PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML and other files or URLs to Markdown so agents can read and search them. A single convert_to_markdown tool over STDIO or local HTTP.
- [MarkItDown](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/markitdown.md): [CLI] Converts PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, images, audio and more into Markdown that keeps headings, lists and tables, ready for LLMs to read and analyze. Maintained by Microsoft; requires Python 3.10+.
- [PDF](https://hebbmind.com/de/skill/pdf.md): [Skill] Extracts text and tables from PDFs; merges, splits and rotates pages, adds watermarks, fills forms and OCRs scanned documents. The official Anthropic skill behind Claude's document features; source-available, not open source.
- [Browser Use](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/browser-use.md): [CLI] Open-source browser agent project. Its browser-use CLI lets Claude Code, Codex and other agents drive your logged-in local Chrome with Python snippets, or connect to a cloud browser; also ships a Python agent library. The cloud browser needs an API key.
- [Scientific Agent Skills](https://hebbmind.com/de/skill/scientific-agent-skills.md): [Skill] 166 research skills maintained by K-Dense (formerly Claude Scientific Skills), spanning bioinformatics, cheminformatics, clinical research, materials and physics, including unified access to 78 public databases such as PubChem and UniProt. Works with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.
- [Hermes Agent](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/hermes-agent.md): [CLI] Self-improving agent from Nous Research with built-in memory and a learning loop that turns experience into skills. Works with any model provider; the hermes command has a terminal UI, and a gateway connects it to Telegram, Slack and more and runs scheduled tasks.
- [MCP Builder](https://hebbmind.com/de/skill/mcp-builder.md): [Skill] Guides agents in building quality MCP servers: research the protocol and target API, design tools, implement with Python (FastMCP) or the TypeScript SDK, and write evaluation questions to test the result. Official Anthropic skill.
- [Agent SDK Dev](https://hebbmind.com/de/plugin/agent-sdk-dev.md): [Plugin] Scaffolds a Claude Agent SDK project in Python or TypeScript interactively with /new-sdk-app, then a verifier agent checks dependencies, config and code against official best practices. Maintained by Anthropic.
- [vLLM](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/vllm.md): [CLI] High-throughput LLM inference and serving engine: vllm serve starts an OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible server in one command. Supports 200+ model architectures from Hugging Face, quantization and distributed inference. Aimed mainly at NVIDIA, AMD and other GPUs.
- [PaddleOCR MCP Server](https://hebbmind.com/de/mcp/paddlepaddle-mcp-server.md): [MCP] Official PaddleOCR MCP: text recognition and layout parsing for images and PDFs (PP-OCR, PP-StructureV3, PaddleOCR-VL), returning text or Markdown. Runs inference locally, or calls the official API or a self-hosted service.
- [uv](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/uv.md): [CLI] Astral's extremely fast Python package and project manager written in Rust, replacing pip, pipx, poetry, pyenv and more. Supports lockfiles and multiple Python versions, and uvx runs Python tools without installing them.
- [Scrapling](https://hebbmind.com/de/mcp/scrapling.md): [MCP] MCP server built into the adaptive Python scraping framework Scrapling: supports plain HTTP requests, browser rendering and stealth fetching, and uses CSS selectors to pass only the target content to the AI, saving tokens and filtering out prompt injection.
- [Scrapling](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/scrapling.md): [CLI] Adaptive web scraping framework: scrapling extract turns a page into Markdown, text or HTML in one command, with CSS selectors and browser rendering for dynamic pages, plus an MCP server (needs the ai extra). Needs Python 3.10+ and a browser install on first use.
- [Crawl4AI](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/crawl4ai.md): [CLI] Open-source, LLM-friendly web crawler that turns pages into clean Markdown for RAG and agents. Ships the crwl CLI and supports deep crawling and question-driven data extraction (extraction needs an LLM key). Free to self-host.
- [OpenBB Platform CLI](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/openbb-finance-cli.md): [CLI] Command-line edition of the open-source OpenBB investment research platform: query stock prices, financial statements, macroeconomic and other financial data from the terminal, and automate data pulls with Routine scripts. Officially maintained; some sources need API keys.
- [Docling](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/docling.md): [CLI] Parses PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, images and audio, recovering layout, reading order, tables and formulas, and exports Markdown, HTML or lossless JSON. Started by IBM Research, now hosted by the LF AI & Data Foundation; runs fully locally.
- [Freqtrade](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/freqtrade.md): [CLI] Open-source crypto trading framework: download market data, backtest and optimize strategies, and paper trade from the CLI while agents iterate on strategies. Docker recommended; strategies need Python and live trading needs exchange API keys. Backtests don't guarantee returns.
- [CLI-Anything](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/cli-anything.md): [CLI] From HKU's Data Intelligence Lab: plugins or skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents generate agent-callable CLIs for apps like GIMP, Blender and LibreOffice, and the cli-hub package manager finds and installs ready-made community CLIs. Needs Python 3.10+.
- [Ruff](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/ruff.md): [CLI] Astral's extremely fast Python linter and formatter written in Rust, replacing Flake8, isort and Black, with 900+ built-in rules and auto-fix.
- [Qlib](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/qlib.md): [CLI] Microsoft's open-source AI quant investment research platform: the qrun command runs dataset building, model training, backtesting and evaluation from a YAML config, with many benchmark models. The official dataset is paused, so prepare market data per the README first.
- [Marker](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/marker.md): [CLI] Converts PDFs, images, PPTX, DOCX, XLSX, EPUB and more into Markdown, JSON or HTML, preserving tables, formulas and layout, with optional LLM help for higher accuracy. Needs Python 3.10+ and PyTorch; large-scale commercial use of the model weights needs a paid license.
- [Pyright LSP](https://hebbmind.com/de/plugin/pyright-lsp.md): [Plugin] Connects Claude Code to the Pyright language server for static type checking and code intelligence in Python. Install pyright first with npm, pip or pipx. Official Anthropic plugin.
- [OCRmyPDF](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/ocrmypdf.md): [CLI] Adds a searchable, copyable text layer to scanned PDFs, with automatic deskew, rotation and size optimization, outputting PDF/A by default. Built on Tesseract, supports 100+ languages and runs fully locally.
- [FunASR](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/funasr.md): [CLI] Industrial-grade open-source speech recognition toolkit from Alibaba's ModelScope, with an agent-friendly funasr command that turns audio into text, JSON or SRT subtitles in one step, with speaker diarization and timestamps. Strong on Chinese. Requires PyTorch.
- [Browser Harness](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/browser-harness.md): [CLI] Browser control from the browser-use team: an editable CDP connection lets agents drive the Chrome you are already using, writing missing helper functions as they go and keeping them for reuse. Also offers an MCP server. Allow remote debugging in Chrome on first use.
- [DVC](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/dvc.md): [CLI] Version datasets and models the way Git versions code: data lives in remote storage like S3 or GCS while versions are tracked in your Git repo. Also offers reproducible pipelines and local experiment tracking, rerunning only the steps affected by a change.
- [Skill Seekers](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/skill-seekers.md): [CLI] Turns 18 kinds of sources, including doc sites, GitHub repos, PDFs and videos, into skill packages for Claude and other platforms, or exports RAG chunks and vector store data. Optional MCP server, and it can call a local agent like Claude Code to enrich content. Needs Python 3.10+.
- [LLM](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/llm.md): [CLI] Simon Willison's LLM CLI and Python library: call OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and local models from the terminal, with conversations logged to SQLite automatically, plus embeddings, structured extraction, tool calling and a plugin system.
- [Trae Agent](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/trae-agent.md): [CLI] ByteDance's open-source, general software engineering agent: trae-cli edits files and runs commands from natural language, supports multiple model providers and MCP, and records full execution trajectories. Transparent design suits agent research and customization. Needs your own model API key.
- [Hugging Face Skills](https://hebbmind.com/de/skill/huggingface-skills.md): [Skill] Hugging Face's official skills: manage Hub models and datasets with the hf CLI, fine-tune language and vision models, run model evaluations, and build Gradio apps deployed to Spaces. Needs an HF account; cloud training on HF Jobs requires a paid plan.
- [pdfplumber](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/pdfplumber.md): [CLI] Reads the exact position of every character, line and table cell in digital PDFs: the CLI exports layout-preserving text or CSV/JSON details, and the Python API extracts tables and form fields, ideal for invoices, statements and reports. Runs locally with Python; scans need OCR first.
- [PaperQA2](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/paper-qa.md): [CLI] High-accuracy retrieval-augmented Q&A over paper PDFs, text and Office documents, filling in citation metadata, checking retractions and attaching traceable sources to answers. Provides the pqa CLI and a Python library. Needs an LLM API key by default; local models can be configured.
- [RapidOCR](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/rapidocr.md): [CLI] Lightweight OCR built on PaddleOCR models converted to ONNX, recognizing Chinese and English by default on CPU alone. The rapidocr CLI reads text from screenshots, photos and scanned page images. Needs Python; downloads models on first run, then works offline. Convert PDFs to images first.
- [MLX-Audio](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/mlx-audio.md): [CLI] Offline speech toolkit for Apple Silicon Macs: CLI text-to-speech (including Chinese and voice cloning) and speech-to-text, for voicing lessons and explainer videos or transcribing lectures and interviews, with data staying local. Needs an M-series Mac and Python 3.10+; MP3 export needs ffmpeg.
- [OpenCompass](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/opencompass.md): [CLI] Open-source LLM evaluation platform: one opencompass command picks the model and datasets and runs the evaluation across hundreds of benchmarks. Works with local Hugging Face models and API models, with vLLM and LMDeploy for faster inference.
- [Jupyter Notebooks](https://hebbmind.com/de/skill/jupyter-notebook.md): [Skill] Creates, edits and validates reproducible Python and SQL Jupyter notebooks: organizes cells as reports or tutorials, checks conclusions against actual output and reruns top to bottom before handoff. Maintained by OpenAI in the Data Analytics plugin of openai/plugins.
- [Trafilatura](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/trafilatura.md): [CLI] Python library and CLI for extracting main web content: fetches pages, crawls via sitemaps and RSS feeds, strips headers, footers and other noise, and outputs TXT, Markdown, JSON, XML and more with metadata. Also processes downloaded HTML offline.
- [Beancount](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/beancount.md): [CLI] Language and toolset for double-entry bookkeeping in text files: bean-check validates the ledger, bean-format normalizes it, and Fava or beanquery handle reports and queries. Plain-text ledgers are easy for agents to generate and keep in version control.
- [Excel MCP Server](https://hebbmind.com/de/mcp/excel-mcp-server.md): [MCP] Create, read and modify xlsx workbooks without Microsoft Excel installed: formulas, formatting and conditional formatting, charts, pivot tables and tables. Runs locally over stdio or as a remote HTTP service.
- [Hugging Face CLI](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/huggingface-hub.md): [CLI] Hugging Face's official hf CLI: search, download and upload models and datasets, manage repos and storage buckets, and run jobs on Hugging Face's cloud. Output adapts automatically for agents, and hf skills add installs companion skills. Uploads and similar actions need a login.
- [Camelot](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/camelot.md): [CLI] Open-source PDF table extraction with a camelot CLI: exports tables from financial reports, bank statements and statistical reports to Excel, CSV or Markdown, with an accuracy score. Needs Python 3.10+; handles text-based PDFs by default, scans need the ml and ocr extras. Double-check results.
- [Paper Search MCP](https://hebbmind.com/de/mcp/paper-search-mcp.md): [MCP] Unified search across 20+ academic sources including arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex, returning deduplicated, normalized results and downloading full text via open-access channels first. Most sources need no API key.
- [EdgarTools](https://hebbmind.com/de/mcp/edgartools.md): [MCP] Python library with a built-in MCP server for US SEC EDGAR data: search 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K and other filings and read XBRL-standardized financial statements, Form 4 insider trades and 13F holdings. Free with no API key; just set an EDGAR_IDENTITY.
- [MFLUX](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/mflux.md): [CLI] Runs open image models like FLUX, Qwen Image and Z-Image locally on a Mac: text-to-image, reference-based edits, inpainting and upscaling, all on-device. Needs Apple Silicon and uv; the first run downloads models and is slow. Check each model's license before commercial use.
- [invoice2data](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/invoice2data.md): [CLI] Extracts issuer, amount, date, invoice number and other fields from PDF invoices using YAML/JSON templates, exporting CSV, JSON or XML. Ships several text-extraction backends, OCR for scanned invoices and an optional AI fallback.
- [MCP Memory Service](https://hebbmind.com/de/mcp/mcp-memory-service.md): [MCP] Self-hostable long-term memory for agents, offering MCP, a REST API and a web dashboard: semantic search, knowledge graph and automatic memory consolidation. Embeddings are computed locally; choose SQLite, Cloudflare or Milvus as the backend.
- [Jupyter MCP Server](https://hebbmind.com/de/mcp/jupyter-mcp-server.md): [MCP] Connects agents to live Jupyter notebooks: read, write, insert and execute cells and read multimodal outputs like charts, for interactive data analysis. Bring your own JupyterLab or JupyterHub; open source, maintained by Datalayer.
- [LangChain Skills](https://hebbmind.com/de/skill/langchain-skills.md): [Skill] LangChain's official skill collection: framework selection, quickstarts, middleware, persistence, human-in-the-loop approval, RAG and eval design across LangChain, LangGraph and Deep Agents, in Python and TypeScript. Also installable as a Claude Code plugin. Still in early development.
- [sacreBLEU](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/sacrebleu.md): [CLI] The standard machine translation scorer: computes BLEU, chrF and TER with significance tests and downloads public test sets such as WMT, to compare engines or prompts. Needs Python 3.9+ and reference translations; automatic metrics are a rough screen, so final copy still needs human review.
- [comfy-cli](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/comfy-cli.md): [CLI] ComfyUI's official CLI: install and launch ComfyUI in one step, manage custom nodes and model downloads, and run image and video workflows, with --json output on every command for agents. Can also submit jobs to paid Comfy Cloud.

Next page: https://hebbmind.com/de/tools.md?page=2&profession=algorithm%2Cfinance&tag=python
