9 alternatives to docling
docling-project/docling — Get your documents ready for gen AI (70,140 stars, MIT, files, integration, auth).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 294 licence-cleared components from docling-project/docling itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
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| 1 | microsoft/markitdown | 7.4 | MIT | 193,727 |
| 2 | chrisryugj/kordoc | 6.1 | MIT | 2,924 |
| 3 | iofficeai/officecli | 6.8 | Apache-2.0 | 32,373 |
| 4 | criptogus/hermesoffice | 6.8 | Apache-2.0 | 624 |
| 5 | enoch3712/extractthinker | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 1,603 |
| 6 | gotenberg/gotenberg-php | 4.5 | MIT | 404 |
| 7 | sylphxai/anymd | 4.7 | MIT | 1,063 |
| 8 | danburzo/percollate | 6.7 | MIT | 4,695 |
| 9 | astrabert/pdfitdown | 4.8 | MIT | 251 |
The alternatives in detail
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Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
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한국 문서를 읽고·고치고·새로 쓰는 AI 문서 도구 — HWP·HWPX·PDF·오피스·스캔(OCR)을 Markdown으로, 신구대조·서식 보존 편집·Markdown→HWPX 작성·HWP→HWPX 변환·양식 채우기·공문서 검수까지. 라이브러리·CLI·MCP | Read, diff, edit, write and convert Korean documents (HWP, HWPX, PDF, Officscore 6.1/10 · MIT permissive · 2,924 stars · 429 components · search them
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OfficeCLI is the first and best Office suite purpose-built for AI agents to read, edit, and automate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Free, open-source, single binary, no Office installation required.score 6.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 32,373 stars · 411 components · search them
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Free, open-source AI Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Markdown) — macOS build, one-click installscore 6.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 624 stars · 1,303 components · search them
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ExtractThinker is a Document Intelligence library for LLMs, offering ORM-style interaction for flexible and powerful document workflows.score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,603 stars · 64 components · search them
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🐘 A PHP client for interacting with Gotenberg.score 4.5/10 · MIT permissive · 404 stars · 17 components · search them
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Any file → clean Markdown for AI agents: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, EPUB, HTML and web pages, images (OCR), audio and video (metadata, subtitles, transcripts). A fast Rust MCP server and CLI that runs on your machine.score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 1,063 stars · 175 components · search them
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A command-line tool to turn web pages into readable PDF, EPUB, HTML, or Markdown docs.score 6.7/10 · MIT permissive · 4,695 stars · 21 components · search them
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Convert Everything to PDFscore 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 251 stars · 15 components · search them
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