Best PDF & Documents AI tools
Apps and open-source skills for pdf & documents that we opened, read up on, and ranked — with the reasoning behind every pick.
APP / SAAS7
1C9.4
ChatPDF
HighFreemium (Plus ~$20/mo)
2A9.1
Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant
HighPaid (AI Assistant add-on ~$5/mo on top of Acrobat)
3G8.8
Google NotebookLM
HighFree (Plus via Google One AI)
4A7.3
AskYourPDF
MediumFreemium (Premium ~$15/mo)
5H7.0
Humata AI
MediumFreemium (Student ~$1.99/mo, Pro ~$9.99/mo)
6P6.7
PDFgear
MediumFree
7S6.4
Smallpdf
MediumFreemium (Pro ~$9/mo)
SKILL / REPO10
1S9.4
Stirling-PDF
HighFree / OSS
2M9.1
MarkItDown (Microsoft)
HighFree / OSS
3M8.8
MinerU (OpenDataLab)
HighFree / OSS
4D8.5
Docling (IBM / DS4SD)
HighFree / OSS
5A8.2
Anthropic pdf skill (official)
HighFree / OSS
6M7.9
marker (Datalab)
HighFree / OSS
7P7.3
pdfplumber
MediumFree / OSS
8P7.0
PyMuPDF
MediumFree / OSS
9P6.7
pypdf
MediumFree / OSS
10C5.4
claude-office-skills (tfriedel)
LowFree / OSS