Alternatives to make-pdf
make-pdf is an agent skill by garrytan: Turn any markdown file into a publication-quality PDF. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match make-pdf and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. golden-pdf leads the list (largest repository here (15,212 stars); active in the last 30 days). 2 of them are published by the company behind the product. Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with make-pdf.
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make-pdf
Turn any markdown file into a publication-quality PDF.
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches make-pdf (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1golden-pdf
yusufkaraaslan
Use when testing the pdf golden build
- Largest repository here (15,212 stars)
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 15.2KLast active Sep 30, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2golden-pdf-kw
yusufkaraaslan
Use when testing keyword categorization
- Largest repository here (15,212 stars)
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 15.2KLast active Sep 30, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3render-pdf-doc
Aperivue
Use when rendering a Markdown document (English or Korean) such as a proposal, IRB cover letter, handout or reference table to PDF via pandoc and xelatex…
- Supports bash and Python
★ 349Last active Oct 4, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4pdf-explore
Companion-Inc
Read, extract, and cross-check content across scientific PDFs.
- Repository has 10K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 10KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5pdf-summarizer
TencentOfficial
Summarize the key points of a PDF document into a short bullet list.
- Published by the vendor
★ 7.1KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6scansci-pdf
Rimagination
下载学术论文。支持 DOI、arXiv ID、关键词搜索、批量下载、Sciverse 语义检索/元数据、Elsevier API、WebVPN/CARSI 机构访问、下载失败排障。当用户要求下载论文(单篇或批量)、搜索文献、获取引文、配置 Sciverse/Elsevier API、或下载遇到…
- Repository has 1.2K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.2KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7pdf-backends
xberg-io
Change or diagnose Xberg PDF extraction, native/Pdfium backend selection, PDF rendering sessions, encrypted documents, OCR fallback, or backend-specific…
- Repository has 9.4K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 9.4KLast active Oct 13, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8PDF Processing Pro
anbeime
综合办公文员与软件开发工程师当需要批量处理PDF表单、提取表格或进行OCR识别时,使用内置脚本一键完成自动化提取与数据校验,彻底告别繁琐的手动录入,让复杂文档工作流高效、稳健落地。
- Supports Python
★ 8.6KLast active Aug 26, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 9pdf
snykOfficial
Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms.
- Published by the vendor
- Supports Python
★ 3.2KLast active Oct 20, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10pdf-to-markdown
remorses
Convert PDF files to markdown using tested CLI tools.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Ships helper scripts
★ 44Last active Oct 9, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11mistral-pdf-to-markdown
FuZhiyu
Convert PDFs to Markdown with Mistral OCR and extracted images.
- Supports Python
★ 11Last active Oct 5, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12pdf-processing-openai
OpenAI
Toolkit for comprehensive PDF reading, reviwing, and creation with visual quality control.
★ 895Last active Jul 30, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet