Decision Workspace
extractous vs kreuzberg vs cli-justify
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
45
extractous
growingv0.3.0
Extractous provides a fast and efficient way to extract content from all kind of file formats including PDF, Word, Excel CSV, Email etc... Internally it uses a natively compiled Apache Tika for formats are not supported natively by the Rust core
65
kreuzberg
experimentalv4.9.8
High-performance document intelligence library for Rust. Extract text, metadata, and structured data from PDFs, Office documents, images, and 90+ formats and 300+ programming languages via tree-sitter code intelligence with async/sync APIs.
62
cli-justify
growingv0.1.20
A CLI text justify tool
Core Metrics
| extractous | kreuzberg | cli-justify | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 45 | 65 | 62 |
| Total Downloads | 266.1K | 38.5K | 20.1K |
| 30d Downloads | 58.8K | 15.2K | 0 |
| Dependents | 39 | 112 | 54 |
| Releases | 8 | 101 | 21 |
| Last Updated | 520d ago | today | today |
| Age | 1y 8m | 5m | 1y 11m |
Health Breakdown
extractous
Maintenance
8
Quality
11
Community
10
Popularity
6
Documentation
10
kreuzberg
Maintenance
20
Quality
15
Community
12
Popularity
5
Documentation
13
cli-justify
Maintenance
19
Quality
15
Community
11
Popularity
5
Documentation
12
Technical Details
| extractous | kreuzberg | cli-justify | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.3.0 | 4.9.8 | 0.1.20 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✗ No |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Elastic-2.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| Dependencies | 18 | 111 | 1 |
| Crate Size | 136KB | 1.7MB | 37KB |
| Features | 0 | 50 | 0 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2024 | 2024 |
| MSRV | — | 1.91 | 1.88 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •kreuzberg leads with a health score of 65/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •extractous has the most downloads (266.1K), suggesting wider adoption.
- •kreuzberg is depended on by 112 crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •⚠ extractous has not been updated in over a year.
- •extractous, cli-justify are pre-1.0 — API may change.