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Open Source Packages

Libraries, frameworks, tools, and SDKs used by the apps in this directory — scored the same way as the apps themselves.

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92Health
Library PyPI

Pillow

The friendly PIL fork that adds image processing capabilities to Python

13,856
Other
Used by 62
91Health
Library PyPI

PyMuPDF

A high-performance Python library for extracting, rendering, converting, and manipulating PDF and other document formats.

10,792
AGPL 3.0
Used by 12
80Health
Library PyPI

opencv-python

Pre-built, pip-installable OpenCV bindings that give Python programs full computer vision and image-processing capabilities without compiling from source.

5,412
MIT
Used by 12
76Health
Library PyPI

torchaudio

GPU-accelerated audio processing library built on PyTorch, with differentiable transforms, Kaldi-compatible features, and pretrained speech models.

2,948
Other
Used by 10
61Health
SDK PyPI

youtube-transcript-api

Fetch transcripts and auto-generated subtitles for any YouTube video in Python

8,389
MIT
Used by 6
90Health
Library PyPI

librosa

A Python library for audio and music signal analysis, providing the core DSP building blocks for music information retrieval (MIR) systems.

8,633
Other
Used by 5
88Health
Library PyPI

PyAV

Pythonic bindings for FFmpeg's audio, video, subtitle, and container libraries.

3,293
BSD 3
Used by 5
95Health
Library PyPI

FontTools

Python library for manipulating TrueType, OpenType, and other font formats

5,266
MIT
Used by 4
73Health
Library Go

barcode

A pure Go library for generating and rendering 1D and 2D barcodes, from Code128 and EAN to QR Code and PDF417.

1,562
MIT
Used by 4
41Health
Library PyPI

imageio-ffmpeg

A pure-Python wrapper that bundles a platform-specific ffmpeg binary for reading and writing video, with no system ffmpeg install required.

301
Other
Used by 4
51Health
Library PyPI

pytube

A lightweight, dependency-free Python library for downloading YouTube videos

13,178
Other
Used by 3
54Health
Library PyPI

EasyOCR

Ready-to-use Python OCR supporting 80+ languages and all popular writing scripts.

30,036
Apache 2.0
Used by 2
92Health
Library PyPI

kornia

A differentiable computer vision library for PyTorch, with 500+ GPU-ready ops for image processing, augmentation, and geometry.

11,385
Apache 2.0
Used by 2
85Health
Library PyPI

scikit-image

A collection of algorithms for image processing in Python, built on NumPy arrays and interoperable with the scientific Python ecosystem.

6,596
BSD 3
Used by 2
40Health
Library Go

SVGo

A Go library for generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) directly from code, covering shapes, paths, gradients, filters, and animation.

2,251
Other
Used by 2
67Health
Library PyPI

CairoSVG

Renders SVG documents to PDF, PNG, PostScript, and EPS using Cairo, with a small Python API and command-line tool.

953
Other
Used by 2
85Health
Library PyPI

pypdfium2

ABI-level Python bindings to PDFium for fast, liberal-licensed PDF rendering and manipulation.

827
Other
Used by 2
43Health
Library PyPI

Piexif

A pure-Python library for reading, writing, inserting, and removing EXIF metadata in JPEG and WebP images.

392
MIT
Used by 2
88Health
Tool PyPI

OCRmyPDF

Adds a searchable OCR text layer to scanned PDFs and images, producing validated PDF/A output by default.

34,883
MPL-2.0
Used by 1
51Health
Library npm

jQuery File Upload

A jQuery widget for multiple file uploads with drag-and-drop, progress bars, chunked/resumable transfers, and image previews across any server-side platform.

30,703
MIT
Used by 1
58Health
Library PyPI

aiortc

A pure-Python implementation of WebRTC and ORTC built on asyncio, for real-time audio, video, and data channel communication.

5,106
BSD 3
Used by 1
57Health
Library PyPI

pyttsx3

Offline text-to-speech synthesis library for Python across Windows, macOS, and Linux

2,534
MPL-2.0
Used by 1
65Health
Library PyPI

tika-python

Python binding to the Apache Tika REST server for extracting text and metadata from documents

1,666
Apache 2.0
Used by 1
91Health
Library PyPI

psd-tools

A Python library for reading, editing, and compositing Adobe Photoshop PSD/PSB files

1,465
MIT
Used by 1

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