What it does
Xberg is an engine that reads many kinds of files, including PDFs, scanned images, spreadsheets, emails, e-books, web pages and audio, and turns them into clean text, tables and structured data. It can read text from images (OCR) and transcribe speech.
It is often used to prepare documents for AI search and question-answering. Programmers can use it from many languages, a command-line tool, a web API or as an MCP server for AI assistants. The README says it is the next version of a project called Kreuzberg.
Who it's for
Developers who need to extract content from lots of different documents, often to feed into AI apps.
Can I use it without coding?
Developers only. It is a code library and command-line tool for programmers. New to this? Start here.
Can I run it?
- Cost
- FreeNothing to pay or sign up for.
- Computer
- An ordinary computer is fine
- Privacy
- Your choice: run it on your device or use an online service
- API key
- Not needed
Try it
Using Claude Code, Cursor or another AI coding assistant? Paste the prompt and it will walk you through the setup.New to this?
Before you install
- Only download from the official GitHub page. Copies with similar names exist for many popular projects.
- License (MIT): Very permissive: free to use, change and share, including for business.
- More on staying safe