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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by mrmn@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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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[-] refalo@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago
[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

Your link is broken, linking to https://programming.dev/post/Stirling-PDF

[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Their README has a section regarding that https://github.com/mrmn2/PdfDing/blob/master/README.md#comparison-with-stirling-pdf

... Stirling PDF focuses on performing various operations like splitting, cropping and rotating on your PDFs. PdfDing however has a different focus, it is all about reading and organizing your PDFs. ...

[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

PDF is a broad format with various standards and formats. Which ones does PdfDing support?

[-] mrmn@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

The project is using mozilla's pdf.js library for displaying pdfs (this is also used for firefox's build in pdf reader). As far as I am aware it should be able to work with (allmost) all pdf files.

[-] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago

I'm not a huge fan of python projects in general, they tend to be wildly unreliable in the long run (more the fault of python itself than the devs but the fact remains) however i am looking for something exactly like this so I'm gonna give it a shot

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