BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit

9 months ago by alam to c/selfhosted

Hi folks!

I’m the creator of BentoPDF. It is an open source PDF toolkit that runs entirely in your browser. Your documents stay private, by design.

BentoPDF started as a small side project, but over time it has grown into something much bigger. With our latest major update, BentoPDF now includes 100+ tools, all running fully client-side.

You can do the basics like merge PDFs(while preserving bookmarks), split documents, extract or delete pages, reorder files, rotate pages, and compress PDFs. Thee are also some advanced tools.

You can edit and annotate PDFs directly in the browser: highlight text, add comments, draw shapes, insert images, fill(including XFA) and create forms, manage bookmarks, generate tables of contents, redact, add headers, footers, watermarks, and page numbers.

BentoPDF also supports an extensive range of file conversions. You can convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Pages, CSV, RTF, EPUB, MOBI, comic book formats, and many more into PDFs, and also convert PDFs back into Word, Excel, images, Markdown, CSV, JSON, and plain text.

For images, BentoPDF supports a massive variety of formats, including HEIC, WebP, SVG, PSD, JP2, and and aalso other formats such as EPUB, CBR/CBZ. You can convert images to PDFs, extract images from PDFs in their original format, or rasterize PDFs with full DPI control.

There are also organization and optimization tools: OCR, PDF/A conversion, booklet creation, N-up layouts, page division, attachment management, layer (OCG) editing, metadata inspection and editing, repair tools, and advanced compression algorithms that rival commercial solutions.

The latest update also includes AI ready extraction tools to export PDFs to structured JSON, extract tables as CSV/Markdown/JSON, and prepare PDFs for RAG and LLM workflows.

All of this works entirely in the browser, without accounts, uploads, or tracking.

This is my first post here and I hope you like it. Any feedback or feature requests are appreciated. Thank you.

Github Link: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf

Blackmist 183 points 9 months ago

Can it also redact text from documents without allowing you to just copy and paste it back out again?

Asking for a friend.

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alam 93 points 9 months ago

Yes! It performs true redaction. You can find it in the editor tool

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JGrffn 65 points 9 months ago

It is a civic duty to redact certain papers incorrectly.

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Bazoogle 20 points 9 months ago

Certain files, involving a certain island.

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irmadlad 11 points 9 months ago

@Blackmist@feddit.uk works for the NCA. LOL

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anon_8675309 7 points 9 months ago

lol

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tburkhol 73 points 9 months ago

Great project. I like the 1-star reviews complaining about the lack of advertising and tracking.

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alam 24 points 9 months ago

haha thanks

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JigglySackles 5 points 9 months ago

Lol wait seriously? Surely those are a joke.

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cRazi_man 63 points 9 months ago

I use this already. Works great. Thanks for your hard work on this.

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alam 24 points 9 months ago

Glad it helped!

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slazer2au 10 points 9 months ago

Same.

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alam 12 points 9 months ago

(:

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mrsilkworm 33 points 9 months ago

You're doing the lords work my dude. There are not enough ways to thank you for your work

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alam 3 points 9 months ago

(:

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rotkehlchen 32 points 9 months ago

Thank you so much. Why did you start this project, which certainly involves a lot of work? ( aka why are you so cool?)

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alam 36 points 9 months ago

Thank you! It started off as a simple tool as I wanted to merge PDFs visually by applying page ranges and I couldn't find any offline tool for that. I happened to then post it on reddit, and people asked me to open source it. After which I kept adding features on request and here we are 😂

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rotkehlchen 7 points 9 months ago

You're great for making this so everyone can use it. Thank you

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alam 3 points 9 months ago

(:

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Lowlands 29 points 9 months ago

Been using this for a while now, wife and kids are also very pleased with it. Easy to use and great layout, thank you so much!

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alam 16 points 9 months ago

wow, that's great to know

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Luckyfriend222 6 points 9 months ago

Does each user have their own account? Or can anyone and everyone see all the pdfs? Or are the pdfs only stored for the duration of the browser session?

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alam 22 points 9 months ago

There are no accounts or signup. All the processing happens locally in your browser. In fact, you can even use it offline once the page is loaded, and only you have access to the PDFs

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psycotica0 5 points 9 months ago

Everything local, I assume, means no upload? My dad does house inspections and so there's like 4 or 5 pdf forms he fills out all the time. If he were using this, would he upload the template every time, or could he upload it once and then fill it out multiple times?

I assume also that it wouldn't keep a history of each finished file, and it's all ephemeral?

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alam 10 points 9 months ago

It never keeps any history, the TTL for the document is only as long as you are not done with the processing. There is no template system now. However I am planning to include a JSON based templating system which you can upload once and save and can be reused to auto fill forms

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NullPointerException 28 points 9 months ago

The day I can digitally sign PDFs from this, it'd be the PDF editor. You're doing the Lord's work, thank you very much for this!

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alam 39 points 9 months ago

It's actually coming up in next release (: You will be able to sign with PKCS12, PFX and PEM certificates. And also validate them

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NullPointerException 9 points 9 months ago

Oh, wow, thank you very much for this!!

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biotin7 3 points 9 months ago

What about PGP ?

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alam 5 points 9 months ago

yes that too

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biotin7 2 points 9 months ago

Well now I am even more interested in it.

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Lemminary 21 points 9 months ago

I've used it before for a job application! I needed to send them sensitive data. Tysm!

Great intuitive UI, does what it says, and it's fast. 5/5

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alam 7 points 9 months ago

Thanks!

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Limeade3425 21 points 9 months ago

Thank you so much for this. We just started using it at our school. We were using StirlingPDF, but they went open core 🫤. Personally, I like that there is no auth, it keeps it simple.

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alam 4 points 9 months ago

That's great to know. Thank you!

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flightyhobler 20 points 9 months ago

I've used Stirling pdf in the past. How does it compare?

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alam 9 points 9 months ago

Not sure, as I haven't used Stirling and at the same time I didn't make it to compete with other tools. Hence I never mention its better than xyz tool either on our github or website. Users would have to do their own due diligence in this case. However it does have the best bookmark tool in the market(yes, better than adobe acrobat) and also a form creator tool, among others, which you can't find in other OS tools.

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flightyhobler 6 points 9 months ago

I understand and I wasn't looking for a "better or worst"assessment. I'll give it a try even if I haven't needed to manipulate pdfs. Always nice to add to the toolset.

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alam 3 points 9 months ago

Thank you!

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flightyhobler 1 point 9 months ago

No man, thank you!

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Voroxpete 8 points 9 months ago

Honestly, I think this is just one where you try it for yourself. The compose file is about 4 lines long, I had the whole thing up and running in about 30 seconds (OK, 45; I forgot a port was already in use and had to redeploy).

So far my one big complaint would be that the self-hosted version replicates the entire website, including all of the "Why choose Bento PDF" and "Try now" and so on. It'd be nice to just have the tools right there when I load it up. Other than that, well, it looks cool, I'll know more once I actually try out the available options.

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Eldaroth 8 points 9 months ago

Just try the simple image, see https://github.com/... :)

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Voroxpete 3 points 9 months ago

Oh, perfect. Thank you.

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krash 1 point 9 months ago

As someone who have been using both, you don't need an account to use bentopdf. All the data is processed locally, making it excellent for a single user scenario. I drink Sterling has a very handy omni-tool, but I dare say it's a matter of preference.

I go with bento where I can, and use sterling as a fallback.

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flightyhobler 1 point 9 months ago

No account need for Stirling either. I will try to give it a go soon.

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krash 1 point 9 months ago

I was not very clear, sorry about that: sterling supports accounts and oicd logins.

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flightyhobler 1 point 5 months ago

Uses much less memory than Stirling.

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stephaaaaan 15 points 9 months ago

What I would love to see is batch processing of mapped form fields from a PDF template, e.g. to fill out training certificate template pdfs with name, date, company, and instructor from a given CSV file, add a signature and print it. Is something like that possible? 🙂

We currently use nodered, python and reportlab and I‘m looking to somewht simplify the process :)

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alam 5 points 9 months ago

That's interesting. I will see what I can do

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stephaaaaan 3 points 9 months ago

Awesome, thanks :)

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TheFinn 14 points 9 months ago

Are there ways to use it via an API? In particular I'd love to be able to programmatically submit a Word or Excel document and receive a PDF back

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alam 10 points 9 months ago

As its fully client side, it doesn't expose any APIS. HOwever, I am writing an API only version of bentopdf on Rust

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Passerby6497 7 points 9 months ago

Agreed. I spent a bit of time writing out a script for similar functionality for one of our business units, but I never was able to figure out how to convert excel sheets to a PDF to be able to merge them in the allotted time, so it just doesn't support them lol.

But I can see why it wouldn't have an API, since the whole deal is it stays in your browser, and an API would mean sending the files to the server.

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TheFinn 1 point 9 months ago

Maybe there's some way to use selenium or something like that so that it stays local.

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partofthevoice 4 points 9 months ago

My work processes PDFs from government sites, filling them out for end users automatically. Would be cool if the API could do this somehow. Parse fields, and let you put text into them.

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Konraddo 2 points 9 months ago

Unsure it fits your scenario but you could use VBA. In my case, we collect data via Excel then they get populated into a Word report template, and finally export to PDF for project delivery purposes, all automated using VBA.

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brian 12 points 9 months ago

From just a quick look so far, it seems really versatile. Thanks for the work you’ve put into this!

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alam 9 points 9 months ago

Thanks! Hope you like it

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Resonosity 11 points 9 months ago

I had no clue this existed!!! Thanks for sharing.

Would you say that BentoPDF is an alternative to Adobe Acrobat and/or Bluebeam Revu?

I use those for my job, but it'd be nice to have a FLOSS alternative as a backup

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alam 22 points 9 months ago

It has almost all the features of Acrobat except for the text editing, which i will be adding soon

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Resonosity 5 points 9 months ago

Awesome! Thanks for taking the time to answer.

I will definitely give this a try next weekend

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CoopaLoopa 2 points 9 months ago

From what I've seen in BlueBeam, I don't think most PDF editors are going to include any tools to compete with it. Its in a different category for construction markups.

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Resonosity 1 point 9 months ago

That's ultimately what I'm looking for, but a Revu Lite is a good step in that direction

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CtrlAltDyeet 8 points 9 months ago

Thank you so much for your amazing work! I had to sign something a few weeks ago on a new PC and Bento is so easy

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alam 2 points 9 months ago

Thank you!

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ohlaph 8 points 9 months ago

Looks great

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alam 5 points 9 months ago

Thank you!

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DrunkAnRoot 8 points 9 months ago

love it been hosting mine for close to a month now

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alam 3 points 9 months ago

wow you are an early user, thank you

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kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E 7 points 9 months ago

The logo: all i see us the head between open legs

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alam 8 points 9 months ago

It's supposed to look like a B 🥀

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kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E 4 points 9 months ago

Too bad, now you are cursed with this knowledge

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HugeNerd 2 points 9 months ago

Or a B-2.

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Alexica 7 points 9 months ago

Will try it, looks handy. Thanks!

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alam 8 points 9 months ago

Thanks! Let me know how it goes

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Alexica 1 point 9 months ago

It’s great. I added it to my self hosting stack, will be relying on it from now on. I can’t wait to need some pdf tweaking in the future!

People like you keep my world spinning. Kudos!

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meldrik 7 points 9 months ago

I use this at home and I’m thinking of setting this up at work, to prevent my colleagues from using shady PDF-sites, for merging or splitting PDF-files.

How does the license work for internal use at a company, by it employees?

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alam 12 points 9 months ago

Hello and thank you. There is a one time life time commercial licence that comes for $49 and can be used by unlimited number of users (:

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otter 6 points 9 months ago

Nice, and thanks for posting here! We have a lot of discussion about projects, and it's helpful when the creator/developer is around to respond to comments directly 😄

I saw the update on GitHub about the goal of working on it full time. I also swapped over from StirlingPDF and I'm excited to see where this project goes. Best of luck :)

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alam 4 points 9 months ago

Thank you! 😊

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clot27 3 points 9 months ago

if you dont mind, how does this compare with stirling pdf? Ive never used any of these

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otter 2 points 9 months ago

I only used Stirling briefly before I learned about BentoPDF, so I don't think I can give a fair comparison. I picked Bento because it felt faster and "simpler", and I prefer not having to worry about accounts/upload/storage.

Other concerns with Stirling:

their new license
analytics in the past: https://www.xda-developers.com/...

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UltraBlack 6 points 9 months ago

How does this compare tp stirling pdf?

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VonReposti 6 points 9 months ago

It's not important but I guess it doesn't support auth? I've only got time to do a quick glance right now so I might have missed something.

I think a lot of people's use cases might be to integrate with other tools in their self-host stack like Authentik (could be solved by adding proxy auth if nothing exists natively) and Nextcloud or other filesharing/storing solutions.

If there aren't any capabilities like that then it could be food for thought for expansion. Otherwise great job! Right now it's still an upgrade from various shady PDF tool websites where you still have to download the PDF from your server to upload and process the files.

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alam 11 points 9 months ago

auth is out of the scope of this project currently. but yes it will be a good addition which i am thinking to add in future updates

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Serinus 5 points 9 months ago

You can just have things be out of scope. It's really okay!

Thanks for the work you've put into this.

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alam 1 point 9 months ago

Thank you!

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suodrazah 1 point 9 months ago

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carrylex 5 points 9 months ago

8k Stars in 2 months. Wild...

PS: Your git is misconfigured and doesn't line up with your GH account...

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alam 5 points 9 months ago

Thanks! Yes, I always forget to fix it xD

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Codename_goose 5 points 9 months ago

a small question, if I may.

When I worked in technical support for a popular phone brand a lifetime ago, I had to make clickable “navigatable” pdfs. Create empty objects around apps and settings so that technicians could help clients without having access to their phone or device with current OS update. I would update mine and take screen shots then convert those with clickable objects to switch to the correct page to act as a sudo phone/tablet. Is this something that BentoPDF can do?

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alam 2 points 9 months ago

Currently there's no such feature

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ToxicWaste 5 points 9 months ago

what is the reason to put that tool into a browser? if i use the thing on my private computer, it increases complexity compared to a local installation (not an issue for many ppl here, but for my grandma surely). if i use it on a corporate environment, wouldn't more employees use it if it was the default PDF viewer on their managed device?

what did i miss?

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alam 9 points 9 months ago

Yes, as arthor mentioned it is supposed to be a self hosted tool. But since it's client side and just a bunch of static files in the end, I will soon be porting it for all major platforms as an installable using Tauri

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Gortus 1 point 9 months ago

That's excellent news! Is the github page linked above the best place to find out about that as soon as it's ready?

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alam 1 point 9 months ago

Yes!

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arthor 4 points 9 months ago

this is meant to be self hosted on a server.. in my case its a home server, so my wife and i can access/use this at home and on the road, having the documents synced in one place, which is also self-hosted

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BurnedDonutHole 4 points 9 months ago

I have it on my laptop. Thank you for your efforts.

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alam 3 points 9 months ago

glad it helped!

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dhtseany 4 points 9 months ago

How about email conversion functionality? I get lots of law offices in the USA looking to push an outlook data file in and receive an organized lot PDF back out. On the roadmap?

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alam 12 points 9 months ago

This is actually coming up in next release

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dhtseany 2 points 9 months ago

Heck yeah, appreciate your efforts, you're creating a product to compete with software suites that are incredibly expensive to buy per user per year, you're doing the needful

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fubarx 4 points 9 months ago

This looks great!

Can you use it to overlay text fields and fill them?

Most of my uses are basic. Like filling out a PDF form that doesn't have proper form entry fields. These are usually older government or bureaucratic/healthcare/school forms.

I end up adding text boxes and entering values, or adding an X on top of a checkbox, adding a signature PNG file and scaling it to fit the size. Sometimes I have to add a highlight overlay. Then I save it all as a single flattened PDF file.

Amazingly, this is hard to do in Acrobat and a lot of apps. I end up using a janky, 10-yo desktop app that is no longer supported.

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alam 3 points 9 months ago

You mean XFA forms? Then yes it supports it

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fubarx 1 point 9 months ago

OK, just tried it with one of those old forms. Added a text field overlay and a signature. Even flattens before saving. Works great. Awesome, thanks!

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alam 1 point 9 months ago

Awesome!

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fubarx 1 point 9 months ago

Went to look up what XFA forms were (https://experienceleague.adobe.com/...).

Most of the non-fillable forms I encounter are what that document lists as "Traditional" PDF forms, likely generated using older tools from print streams. For example, a school athletics release form, or a membership application for a small organization. None of them have any fillable PDF fields. The original expectation might have been to download and print out the PDF, hand-fill it, then fax the result back.

I'll dig up a form like that I had to fill a few weeks ago and give it a try.

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Shameless 4 points 9 months ago

This is amazing, well done.

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alam 2 points 9 months ago

thank you!

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Konraddo 3 points 9 months ago

Some features seem to limit the working area to only the middle part of the browser. For example, the Multi Tool use 100% width but the Editor uses 33% only. Would love to see all features making full use of the screen size.

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alam 3 points 9 months ago

There is a use full width toggle which you can find under preferences in setting button in the search bar. I will make this the defult in next release

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Konraddo 2 points 9 months ago

Perfect! Honestly though, I would expect the gears icon to appear in the top right corner, not in the search bar😅

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alam 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah I couldn't find a good place to put it lol

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JigglySackles 3 points 9 months ago

I'm stoked to give it a try. I left my last PDF application because they injected AI into it. So I've been shopping around a little. I've been using Okular, but it's really limited, even as a viewer. This looks awesome. Nicely done! I hope you keep at it!

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alam 4 points 9 months ago

Thank you. You can also use the editor has a viewer

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laz 3 points 9 months ago

You just made my life easier, Thank You.

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clot27 3 points 9 months ago

Thank you so much! This could be a great replacement to ilovepdf, that website has so much data and no one knows what they are dong with it.

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cron 3 points 9 months ago

Is there a function to create a booklet or brochure?

This was a very useful feature to print a number of pages and have them in an easy format to read.

However, at least my Ubuntu print driver doesn't have this feature, and I would need an extra tool to achive this goal.

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alam 4 points 9 months ago

Yes there is a booklet feature along with NUP tool

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ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs 3 points 9 months ago

I don't suppose you're able to sign PDFs with something like a CAC card right? Is that still wholly in the realm of acrobat?

Literally the only thing I need another software to do so I can finally uninstall the last Adobe product from my VM. I'm running Linux so getting this functionality in Linux would be ideal. But since no one else has done it, I assume Adobe has some kind of stranglehold on that process?

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alam 4 points 9 months ago

sorry but this is the first time I am hearing of a CAC card. Can you give me more details. I can check it out then

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ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs 4 points 9 months ago

No problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card

Essentially it's a physical token containing a certificate. I can then put that card into a CAC card reader and authenticate with it and a PIN that I setup on my card.

I can then also sign PDF signature blocks with the cert on the card. I have only found this ability in Adobe Acrobat. The signature block in Adobe is different from just their regular sign location for digital ink. I've never made a PDF with one of those blocks, I've only just signed them so I'm not sure what exactly that kind of signing block is called.

So bottom line, it's a physical card with a certificate loaded on it. Adobe can read that cert and use it to sign signature blocks inside a PDF.

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water1309 2 points 9 months ago

I could really use this, so I will definitely set this up. I saw there is an issue open for adding hyperlinks. Any word on how that is progressing (or not)?

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fusionsaint 2 points 9 months ago

This is a wild coincidence. I was just looking for something like this. Time to go tinker.

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alam 1 point 9 months ago

🙌🏻

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Andrew 2 points 9 months ago

I just installed this via Docker Compose and it looks good! Very similar to PDF24 but open source and more polished.

Only a couple comments - first, bentopdf/bentopdf-simple is definitely the image you want since the other has marketing for companies.
And then a tiny nitpick, but why isn't "Full Width Mode" the default? It comes disabled which displays PDFs in narrow little boxes where you can't see the full page width at a readable size.
Anyway, thank you! Very useful and super easy to setup.

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USSEthernet 2 points 9 months ago

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electric_nan 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks for this! I saw this post yesterday, and decided to check it out. I installed it locally on my laptop, and am evaluating it for work. If I recommend it for use, we'll get a license :).

Since the idea would be to replace Adobe for non-Pro (and maybe some Pro accounts), ease of use for low-tech users is at the front of my mind. Not being able to "set as default" for PDFs is not ideal, but I understand the limitation comes from running in the browser. Is there some way to open the PDF, and then choose which tool to use? Rather than how it seems now: choose the tool/function, then upload the PDF.

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alam 3 points 9 months ago

In next week we are going to be releasing Desktop apps, so you can download it and then set as default viewer

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phoenixz 2 points 9 months ago

Interesting!

Can this work server side as well? I'd love a good PDF toolkit to integrate as a backend into my open source system

Most important missing detail though: reliable conversion from HTML to PDF

I'm currently using wkhtnltopdf and it gets unreliable results at best, especially with layout (CSS)

Any suggestions on what tool could do that best?

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alam 2 points 9 months ago

Nope. But an API version will be released soon

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sem 1 point 9 months ago

Love this idea!

Apologies if you've written this elsewhere, but do you have a write up of what inspired this project? Particularly why a selfhosted solution vs. client software?

My guess is:

Compatible on all devices
Unified editing experience on all devices
??

Thanks!

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alam 3 points 9 months ago

I have a bad habit of never writing blogs haha. I will post one very soon (:

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jhonmu648 1 point a month ago

This is really great. Check Hypic for PC

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MashedTech 1 point 9 months ago

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BoxOfFeet 1 point 9 months ago

This would be fantastic for at work. I saw in another comment that it's a one time fee commercial use license. That's fantastic. How it with merging PDFs with different page sizes and orientations? I would use it for merging drawing packages together, and there's a mix of like, A0, A1, and A3.

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alam 1 point 9 months ago

It can merge any type of pages. Also, if there is bookmarks in your PDFs, then it also preserves it. There's also an alternate merge feature in case you want (:

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smoker 1 point 9 months ago

I have been looking for something like this for ages. I could kiss you rn 😘

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alam 1 point 9 months ago

lol thank you

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USSEthernet 1 point 9 months ago

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alam 2 points 9 months ago

yes please that'd be helpful

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MeThisGuy 1 point 9 months ago

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yakko 1 point 9 months ago

This is right up my street, thanks!!

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Idontknowanything -1 points a month ago

Guys have any of you guys tried Face search tools?

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