8 alternatives to anydoc
firecrawl/anydoc — Convert Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV, and PDF to clean Markdown. Built in Rust, with Node.js and Python bindings. (23,148 stars, MIT, files, dev-tools, ui).
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 92 licence-cleared components from firecrawl/anydoc itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | microsoft/markitdown | 7.5 | MIT | 192,172 |
| 2 | libpdf-js/core | 5.4 | MIT | 1,845 |
| 3 | tafia/calamine | 8.1 | MIT | 2,457 |
| 4 | mwilliamson/mammoth.js | 7.6 | BSD-2-Clause | 6,335 |
| 5 | iofficeai/officecli | 6.2 | Apache-2.0 | 32,373 |
| 6 | jmcnamara/rust_xlsxwriter | 6.2 | Apache-2.0 | 595 |
| 7 | python-openxml/python-docx | 6.0 | MIT | 5,752 |
| 8 | compdfkit/compdf-self-hosted | 5.1 | MIT | 147 |
The alternatives in detail
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Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
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A modern PDF library for TypeScript. Parse, modify, and generate PDFs with a clean, intuitive API.score 5.4/10 · MIT permissive · 1,845 stars · 291 components · search them
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A pure Rust Excel/OpenDocument SpreadSheets file reader: rust on metal sheetsscore 8.1/10 · MIT permissive · 2,457 stars · 18 components · search them
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Convert Word documents (.docx files) to HTMLscore 7.6/10 · BSD-2-Clause permissive · 6,335 stars · 43 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.
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A Rust library for creating Excel XLSX files.score 6.2/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 595 stars · 77 components · search them
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Create and modify Word documents with Pythonscore 6.0/10 · MIT permissive · 5,752 stars · 107 components · search them
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Edit, convert, and transform documents across PDFs, Office formats, HTML, TXT, CSV, RTF, JSON, and images with ComPDF Self-hosted, an open-source PDF platform.score 5.1/10 · MIT permissive · 147 stars · 209 components · search them
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