Selfhosted

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.

Will try it, looks handy. Thanks!

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 :)

How does this compare tp stirling pdf?

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?

8k Stars in 2 months. Wild...

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

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?

This is amazing, well done.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

You just made my life easier, Thank You.

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!

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.

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?