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Alternatives · 2026

The best LightPDF alternatives

The rest of Best AI PDF Tools, in this site's order: each with what it costs, where it runs and its record score.

1
ChatPDF

ChatPDF may suit researchers, students, and professionals who work with papers, contracts, reports, or other supported documents.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+5 $89.99 a year Record6.3 Visit
2
Unstract

Unstract may suit teams that need to extract data from varied documents and route selected items for human review.

WebMacLinux+2 $416 a month, billed yearly Record6.1 Visit
3
AskYourPDF

AskYourPDF suits students, researchers, professionals, and businesses that need to query documents or populate PDF forms.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+2 $11.99 a month, billed yearly Record6.0 Visit
4
SciSpace

SciSpace may suit researchers and students who need to search literature, ask questions about PDFs, or work on scientific writing.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+2 $96 a year Record6.0 Visit
5
Veryfi API

Veryfi API suits organizations that need to extract structured data from business documents through APIs or mobile capture.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+1 $500 a month Record5.6 Visit
6
Amazon Textract AnalyzeExpense

This service suits teams that need to extract and normalize invoice or receipt data for downstream applications.

WebAPISelf-hosted Free plan Record5.5 Visit
7
PDF.chat

PDF.chat may suit people who want to question documents and check page-specific citations.

WebAPI $48 a year Record5.5 Visit
8
Reducto

Reducto is aimed at AI-native companies and document-heavy enterprises that need document processing and structured, citation-ready output.

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record5.3 Visit
9
Scholarcy

Scholarcy may suit students and researchers who work with papers, chapters, or collections of research articles.

WebBrowser extensionAPI $90 a year Record5.3 Visit
10
docAnalyzer

It may suit practitioners who need to analyze document collections, follow citations to source passages, or generate exports.

WebAPI $8 a month Record5.2 Visit
11
Avidnote

Avidnote may suit researchers who want writing, paper-reading, interview-transcription, and data-analysis tools in one web platform.

Web $19 a month Record5.1 Visit
12
Docling

Docling suits developers and AI teams converting varied business files into structured formats.

WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record5.1 Visit
13
Explainpaper

It suits readers and researchers who want explanations, question answering, summaries, or cited sections from papers.

Web $16 a month Record5.1 Visit
14
Humata

Humata suits experts, reporting teams, and organizations that need cited answers, summaries, or comparisons from uploaded documents.

WebAPI $49 a month Record5.1 Visit
15 WebAPI $5 a month Record5.0 Visit
16
Myreader

Myreader suits readers who want to ask questions across books or a library and follow answers back to specific pages or sections.

Web $7.50 a month Record4.9 Visit
17
pdfAssistant.ai

It suits individuals, students, small businesses, and enterprises that need PDF processing or repeatable batch workflows.

Web $83.88 a year Record4.9 Visit
18 Web Free plan Record4.9 Visit
19 WebAPI $18,000 a year Record4.8 Visit
20
LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction

This product suits teams that need document contents structured for downstream workflows, especially where source references and review cues matter.

WebAPISelf-hosted $250 a month Record4.7 Visit
21 Web $12 a month, billed yearly Record4.6 Visit
22 WebAPISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.5 Visit
23
ChatDOC

It suits people who need conversational work with PDFs, office files, scanned documents, or several files together.

WebAPI $89.90 a year Record4.5 Visit
24 WebAPISelf-hosted $50 usage-based Record4.5 Visit