Alternatives
Self-hosted alternatives to Google Document AI
Projects in the registry that can run on your own hardware and serve at least one of the same use cases as Google Document AI.
- Source
- Registry relations over fetched repository records — the evidence sits on each repository page
- Verified
- Evidence not verified
- Confidence
- High
01How this list was built
- Compared against
- Google Document AI
- Delivery
- SaaS products
- Shared use cases
- OCR, Invoice extraction, Data extraction, Document classification
- Selection rule
- open source, or self-hostable, and shares a use case
- Candidates found
- 10
02Alternatives
Docling
Libraries
Document conversion toolkit that parses PDF, Office and image files into structured Markdown or JSON, preserving reading order, tables and figures for downstream retrieval.
- Repository
- docling-project/docling
- Stars
- 65,519
- Licence
- MIT
- In stacks
- 4
Shares: Ocr · Data extraction
LlamaIndex
Frameworks
Data framework for retrieval applications: loaders for many document types, indexing and query pipelines, and evaluation helpers for retrieval quality.
- Repository
- run-llama/llama_index
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Data extraction
LocalAI
Model servers
Drop-in OpenAI-compatible API server that runs text, embedding, image and audio models locally across several back ends, including CPU-only deployments.
- Repository
- mudler/LocalAI
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Ocr
Milvus
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Distributed vector database designed for large collections, with several index types, GPU indexing options and a separated storage and compute architecture.
- Repository
- milvus-io/milvus
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Data extraction
n8n
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Workflow automation tool with several hundred integrations, branching logic, code steps and AI nodes. Can be self-hosted, which is why it appears in on-premise automation stacks.
- Repository
- n8n-io/n8n
- Stars
- 202,375
- Licence
- Other
- In stacks
- 4
Shares: Document classification
PaddleOCR
Libraries
OCR toolkit with detection, recognition and layout models, including Chinese and other East Asian scripts, plus table and formula recognition. Runs offline on CPU or GPU.
- Repository
- PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Ocr · Data extraction · Document classification
paperless-ngx
Self-hosted projects
Self-hosted document management system that OCRs incoming scans and email, applies tags and correspondents through trainable rules, and keeps a searchable archive.
- Repository
- paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
- Stars
- 44,585
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- In stacks
- 2
Shares: Document classification · Ocr · Invoice extraction
RAGFlow
Self-hosted projects
Retrieval engine built around deep document parsing: layout-aware chunking of PDFs, tables and scans, citation-backed answers, and a visual pipeline for building knowledge bases.
- Repository
- infiniflow/ragflow
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Data extraction
Tesseract OCR
Libraries
Long-established open-source OCR engine with trained data for many languages and scripts, usable offline and embedded in most self-hosted document pipelines.
- Repository
- tesseract-ocr/tesseract
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Ocr · Document classification · Data extraction
Unstructured
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Library and hosted API that partition documents of many formats into typed elements for indexing, with connectors to common storage systems and vector databases.
- Repository
- Unstructured-IO/unstructured
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Data extraction · Ocr
03Repository facts
| Repository | Stars | Health |
|---|---|---|
| docling-project/doclingGet your documents ready for gen AI | 66k | Maintenance 100%, Releases 100%, Contributors 50%, Issues 85%, Community 96%90 |
| run-llama/llama_index | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| mudler/LocalAI | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| milvus-io/milvus | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| n8n-io/n8nFair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations. | 202k | Maintenance 100%, Releases 100%, Contributors 50%, Issues 95%, Community 100%92 |
| PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| paperless-ngx/paperless-ngxA community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents | 45k | Maintenance 100%, Releases 80%, Contributors 50%, Issues 100%, Community 93%87 |
| infiniflow/ragflow | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| tesseract-ocr/tesseract | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| Unstructured-IO/unstructured | — | Health not measuredunknown |
04Ask about your own case
Which alternative is right depends on how many people will use it, what the data is and what you can operate. Ask and the answer is researched for your organisation.