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Self-hosted PDF manager, viewer and editor (github.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/opensource

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24002641

Hi,

over the last six months I have been building PdfDing. You can find it on github.

PdfDing is a selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. Some of its features include:

Remembers current position - continue where you stopped reading on any device

Edit PDFs by adding annotations, highlighting and drawings

Share PDFs with an external audience via a link or a QR Code. Shared PDFs can be access controlled

Dark Mode, colored themes and custom theme colors

Inverted color mode for reading PDFs

SSO support via OIDC

Markdown Notes

The project is built using Django, Alpine JS, htmx, Tailwind CSS and Mozilla's pdf.js.

If you like PdfDing please consider giving the project a star on github. If anyone wants to contribute you are welcome to do so!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For a company it would probably be easier to manage. Also maybe the dev is just most comfortable with web dev and instead of making an electron app they made a server. But it should be possible to make a app with electron or tauri running the editor locally

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Why use Electron and not Qt or GTK? Web is unnecessary here and it creates more attack surface. An enterprise use case may be viable though.