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Tags are listed at https://hebbmind.com/api/v1/tags Resources for Full-stack / Indie or ML / AI or Data analysis or Admin / Office, Tagged `pdf`: 52 items. > - Full-stack / Indie: General software work: coding-agent workflows, code review, debugging and Git collaboration. > - ML / AI: Model training, evaluation and LLM application development. > - Data analysis: Querying, statistical analysis, reporting and visualization. > - Admin / Office: Docs, spreadsheets and slides, reports, email and calendars, meeting notes and daily admin. - [MarkItDown-MCP](https://hebbmind.com/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/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+. - [document-skills](https://hebbmind.com/plugin/anthropics-skills.md): [Plugin] Anthropic's document skills, the implementation behind Claude's file features: create, edit and analyze Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files, including tracked changes, comments, formulas and form filling. Source-available, not under an open-source license. - [PDF](https://hebbmind.com/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. - [visa-doc-translate](https://hebbmind.com/skill/visa-doc-translate.md): [Skill] OCRs photos of visa documents such as bank, employment or income certificates, translates them into English and builds a side-by-side bilingual PDF. Needs Python (pillow, reportlab) and an OCR engine. Not an official certified translation: verify names, amounts and dates. - [PaddleOCR MCP Server](https://hebbmind.com/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. - [PaddleOCR](https://hebbmind.com/cli/paddleocr.md): [CLI] Baidu PaddlePaddle's official OCR and document parsing tool: the paddleocr command reads text from images and parses PDFs and scans into Markdown or JSON, supporting 100+ languages with models that run locally. - [MinerU](https://hebbmind.com/cli/mineru.md): [CLI] Document parser from OpenDataLab that turns PDFs, images and Office files into Markdown or JSON, handling tables, formulas and complex layouts well, with page-by-page reading and citation anchors for agents. Parses locally by default; needs Python 3.10+. - [Invoice Organizer](https://hebbmind.com/skill/invoice-organizer.md): [Skill] Reads messy invoices and receipts (PDFs, scans, screenshots), extracts vendor, date and amount, renames and files them by vendor, category or year, keeps originals and can export a CSV for your accountant. Needs an agent with local file access; no account required. - [career-ops](https://hebbmind.com/plugin/career-ops.md): [Plugin] Job search system that runs in your local AI coding CLI: scans job portals, scores roles with a structured A-H evaluation and a 1-5 rating, flags fake listings, tailors ATS resumes and cover letters, and tracks applications. Never submits for you. Needs Node.js. - [career-ops](https://hebbmind.com/skill/career-ops.md): [Skill] Local job search workbench: evaluates role fit and spots fake listings, generates tailored resume and cover letter PDFs, and tracks applications without ever applying for you. Run npx @santifer/career-ops init first, then open Claude Code or Codex in the created folder. - [Docling](https://hebbmind.com/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. - [Umi-OCR](https://hebbmind.com/cli/umi-ocr.md): [CLI] Free, open-source offline OCR desktop app for screenshots, batch images, scanned PDFs and QR codes, callable via the umi-ocr CLI or an HTTP API (the CLI relies on the app's local HTTP service, on by default). Windows and Linux only. - [Reactive Resume MCP](https://hebbmind.com/mcp/reactive-resume.md): [MCP] Official remote MCP for the open-source resume builder Reactive Resume: agents draft and edit resumes and cover letters, export PDFs and track applications; job-based scoring and tailoring need an AI provider set in the app. Needs a free rxresu.me account or a self-hosted instance. - [Marker](https://hebbmind.com/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. - [book-to-skill](https://hebbmind.com/skill/book-to-skill.md): [Skill] Distills technical books, doc folders or paper collections (PDF, EPUB, DOCX, Markdown and more) into an agent skill with a core framework, on-demand chapter files, glossary and cheat sheet for lookup while working. Extraction needs local Python; poppler or docling optional for PDFs. - [OCRmyPDF](https://hebbmind.com/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. - [AP Processor](https://hebbmind.com/skill/ap-processor.md): [Skill] Anthropic's official small-business skill for bills: reads vendor, amount and due date from email, PDFs or photos, dedupes, codes to accounts, matches POs and drafts a payment plan. Posting and paying each need approval; it never auto-pays. Works with QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite or file export. - [PDF Viewer](https://hebbmind.com/plugin/pdf-viewer.md): [Plugin] Anthropic's official plugin that opens PDFs in a local interactive viewer where Claude proposes highlights, comments and approval stamps in batches, walks you through form filling, places signature images and exports an annotated copy. Needs Node.js 18+; signatures are not digital certificates. - [calibre](https://hebbmind.com/cli/calibre.md): [CLI] Open-source e-book manager whose command-line tools (ebook-convert, ebook-meta, calibredb) batch-convert between EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, PDF, DOCX and more and manage library metadata. The install command is Linux-only; on macOS and Windows use the installer. - [anydoc](https://hebbmind.com/cli/anydoc.md): [CLI] From Firecrawl: converts Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, EPUB, RTF and more into clean Markdown locally in milliseconds, keeping headings, tables, footnotes and formulas so agents can read attachments. Needs Node.js; optional Firecrawl cloud OCR for scans uploads the whole file. - [olmOCR](https://hebbmind.com/cli/olmocr.md): [CLI] AI2's tool for converting PDFs and scans to Markdown with a vision LLM, handling equations, tables, handwriting and multi-column layouts, suited to bulk digitizing papers and archives. Local runs need an NVIDIA GPU with 12GB+ VRAM; otherwise use a paid OpenAI-compatible remote endpoint. - [RenderCV](https://hebbmind.com/cli/rendercv.md): [CLI] Write your resume in YAML and render a cleanly typeset PDF from the command line: multiple themes, fine control of margins, colors and fonts, strict field validation and multi-language support. A companion agent skill is available. Needs Python 3.12+. - [MiniMax Skills](https://hebbmind.com/plugin/minimax-ai-skills.md): [Plugin] MiniMax's official skill plugin with dev guides for frontend, full-stack, Android, iOS, Flutter, React Native and GLSL shaders, plus PDF, PowerPoint, Excel and Word document skills and image, video and music generation. Media skills need a MiniMax API key. Still in beta. - [Kami](https://hebbmind.com/skill/kami.md): [Skill] Document layout skill by tw93 with eight templates (resume, one-pager, long doc, formal letter, portfolio, slides, research report and more) that render polished PDF, PNG or editable PPT and check layout and content gaps. Supports English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Needs Python (WeasyPrint). - [pdfplumber](https://hebbmind.com/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. - [WeasyPrint](https://hebbmind.com/cli/weasyprint.md): [CLI] Rendering engine that lays out HTML and CSS and exports PDF, supporting paged media and other print style standards, ideal for generating reports, invoices and receipts in bulk. Written in Python; depends on the system Pango library. - [pdfcpu](https://hebbmind.com/cli/pdfcpu.md): [CLI] PDF command line written in pure Go with almost no external dependencies: dozens of subcommands to merge, split, crop, rotate, watermark, encrypt and decrypt, extract images and fonts, and work with forms. - [qpdf](https://hebbmind.com/cli/qpdf.md): [CLI] Content-preserving structural PDF transformations: merge, split, rotate pages, encrypt and decrypt, linearize and inspect internal structure, easy to script for batch jobs. It does not render pages or extract text. - [mgrep](https://hebbmind.com/cli/mgrep.md): [CLI] Mixedbread's official semantic grep: search code, text, PDFs and images in natural language, and hook it into Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents in one step to cut token use. Requires a Mixedbread sign-in, and files are synced to its cloud index. - [diff-pdf](https://hebbmind.com/cli/diff-pdf.md): [CLI] Visually compares two PDFs page by page: reports differences via exit code, writes a PDF with differences highlighted, or opens a GUI for side-by-side review. Useful for checking contract or generated-document revisions. No longer actively developed. - [Camelot](https://hebbmind.com/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. - [pdf2docx](https://hebbmind.com/cli/pdf2docx.md): [CLI] Converts PDFs to editable Word files, keeping paragraphs, tables, images and layout as closely as possible, and can extract tables alone, handy when a contract or exam only exists as PDF. Needs Python; digital PDFs only, OCR scans first. No longer actively maintained by Artifex. - [Pix2Text](https://hebbmind.com/cli/pix2text.md): [CLI] Recognizes images or whole PDFs (including scans) with math formulas and tables into Markdown and LaTeX, strong on English and Chinese and supporting 80+ languages, handy for digitizing exams, lecture notes and study notes. An open-source Mathpix alternative that runs locally with Python. - [Markdownify MCP Server](https://hebbmind.com/mcp/markdownify-mcp.md): [MCP] Converts PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, audio, web pages and YouTube transcripts into Markdown that agents can read and cite. Built on Microsoft MarkItDown; the Docker image lacks audio transcription and image recognition, so build locally for full features. - [Paper Search MCP](https://hebbmind.com/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. - [invoice2data](https://hebbmind.com/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. - [evil-read-arxiv](https://hebbmind.com/skill/evil-read-arxiv.md): [Skill] Recommends daily papers from arXiv and Semantic Scholar by research interest, reads them and writes illustrated Obsidian notes and a paper graph; can also search venues like CVPR and NeurIPS. Needs Python 3, Obsidian, a vault path and an interests config; the web app needs an Anthropic API key. - [DocuTranslate](https://hebbmind.com/mcp/docutranslate.md): [MCP] Local LLM-powered document translator for PDF, Word, Excel, EPUB, SRT subtitles and more; Word and Excel keep their formatting, glossaries can be built automatically, and agents can submit jobs via MCP. Needs uv and an OpenAI-compatible API key; translated PDFs lose the original layout. - [dailypaper-skills](https://hebbmind.com/skill/dailypaper-skills.md): [Skill] Pulls new papers from Hugging Face Daily Papers and arXiv, scores them by research area into a recommendation page, and writes deep-read Obsidian notes for key ones; can also batch-read Zotero collections. Needs Python 3, Obsidian and poppler; copy the whole skills folder per the README. - [anymd](https://hebbmind.com/mcp/pdf-reader-mcp.md): [MCP] Converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, EPUB, web pages and images to clean Markdown locally, keeping page anchors, tables and two-column reading order, with full-text search across folders. Formerly pdf-reader-mcp; no uploads, no API key. Needs Node.js 18+; OCR for scans needs tesseract. - [unoserver](https://hebbmind.com/cli/unoserver.md): [CLI] Runs LibreOffice as a persistent server so unoconvert can batch-convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ODF and PDF, handling about 2-4x as many documents in the same time as cold-starting LibreOffice each time. Install LibreOffice first and use its bundled Python; officially tested on Linux only. - [x-ray](https://hebbmind.com/cli/x-ray.md): [CLI] From Free Law Project: finds bad redactions in PDFs, where a black box covers text that can still be selected and copied, and outputs the leaked text and positions per page as JSON. Useful for lawyers checking filings before release. Needs Python 3.10+; may miss cases, so review important files. - [LaTeX Document Skill](https://hebbmind.com/skill/latex-document-skill.md): [Skill] Describe what you need and get a typeset PDF: turn handwritten notes or scanned textbooks into LaTeX handouts and cheat sheets, make exams with answer keys, write papers, theses, posters, resumes and letters. 27 templates plus chart and mail-merge scripts. Needs TeX Live (install script included). - [Docling MCP](https://hebbmind.com/mcp/docling-mcp.md): [MCP] The Docling project's official MCP: converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint and more into structured documents with layout and table detection and OCR for scans, and lets agents build new documents paragraph by paragraph and export Markdown. Local mode needs Python and uv, or use your own Docling Serve. - [mcp-pandoc](https://hebbmind.com/mcp/mcp-pandoc.md): [MCP] Converts between Markdown, Word, HTML, LaTeX, EPUB and more with Pandoc, exports PDF and PPTX, and can apply a Word template for consistent styling, handy for formatting manuscripts and handouts. Needs Pandoc and uv; PDF export also needs TeX Live. - [Claude Office Skills](https://hebbmind.com/skill/claude-office-skills-skills.md): [Skill] 130+ office skills for contract review, NDAs, job descriptions, offer letters, invoices and expenses, meeting notes, email, and Excel, PowerPoint and PDF work. Writing skills work as-is; Airtable, Slack and other automations need those services. Legal and finance output needs expert review. - [Mustang](https://hebbmind.com/cli/mustangproject.md): [CLI] Open-source European e-invoicing tool whose CLI validates, extracts and creates ZUGFeRD, Factur-X and XRechnung invoices (PDF or XML) and renders XML invoices as readable HTML or PDF, for EU invoicing compliance. Needs Java; download the Mustang-CLI jar from the project site. - [factur-x](https://hebbmind.com/cli/factur-x.md): [CLI] Python library with a CLI for Factur-X (ZUGFeRD 2.x), the French-German e-invoicing standard: combine a regular PDF invoice and XML into a Factur-X invoice, extract the XML from invoice PDFs and validate it against the official XSD; also handles Order-X and UBL. Needs Python 3. - [MinerU Open MCP](https://hebbmind.com/mcp/opendatalab-mcp.md): [MCP] MinerU's official MCP: parses PDF, Word, PowerPoint and images into Markdown via the mineru.net cloud API, keeping tables and formulas. The keyless Flash mode works out of the box; add a token for higher quotas and more formats. Next page: https://hebbmind.com/tools.md?page=2&profession=fullstack%2Calgorithm%2Cdata%2Coffice&tag=pdf