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So just got this up and running yesterday and today my wife used it for the first time. She did what she needed to do, but we may have come across a bug. I don't know. She had to take a 72 page PDF and break it out into multiple smaller PDFs. While she was doing that, multiple pages in the preview window would keep going blank/white. Not sure if you're aware of something like that, if not I can try to reproduce and grab logs and post them on github.

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

Asking for a friend.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saw this as an option in TrueNAS earlier and will probably be standing this up when I get home today. I was curious about the difference between this and Stirling, but that appears to have been answered. Thank you for what you do and I'll definitely give it a try.

Update: got it up and running. Works great. Wife deals with PDFs a lot and she loves it. Thanks again!

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.

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 :)

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

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!

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.

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?

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

love it been hosting mine for close to a month now