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Nice. I've been looking for something like this to self-host, to avoid my partner uploading sensitive documents to random PDF manipulation websites. Any better

Nice. I've been looking for something like this to self-host, to avoid my partner uploading sensitive documents to random PDF manipulation websites. Any better alternatives I should be considering?

thephotonsphere 3y ago
You can simply use poppler-utils on your on computer? It's a collection of commandline tools for PDF-manipulation. More information can be found here: https://pypi.org/project/poppler-utils/ https://pypi.org/project/poppler-utils/
Etheryte 3y ago
If you happen to be on macOS, the Preview app does an absurd number of things to PDFs, and it does it well. To be honest I'm always surprised it isn't highlighted more by Apple, it's a great tool that pretty much always just works. You can split files, join them, rotate, add signatures, drawings, annotations, redact sections, etc. The feature list is long, especially considering that by the name of the application you'd think it could just preview files, not edit them.
- sumedh 3y ago
  > to be honest I'm always surprised it isn't highlighted more by Apple Probably because its not so intuitive, I have to google how to use some of the advanced features of Preview.
cde-v 3y ago
Edge is surprising decent for marking up PDFs.
somethingsome 3y ago
I often use PDF Sam (basic) and usually it works quite well and is offline. https://pdfsam.org/ https://pdfsam.org/
jftuga 3y ago
A really nice, stand-alone command line tool is pdfcpu. https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu
- rodlette 3y ago
  Looks great, but my partner needs something more convenient. It needs to be web based and work on desktop/mobile.
bayindirh 3y ago
KDE’s Okular. Works on Linux, Windows and macOS. If you’re on already macOS, Preview already has you covered.
jbc1 3y ago
Does it need to be a self hosted web based tool or do you just need PDF software? If the latter I find PDF Expert to be powerful and nice to use.
tony69 3y ago
I use pdftool.org which I saw on HN a while back

Nice. I've been looking for something like this to self-host, to avoid my partner uploading sensitive documents to random PDF manipulation websites. Any better alternatives I should be considering?

thephotonsphere 3y ago

You can simply use poppler-utils on your on computer? It's a collection of commandline tools for PDF-manipulation. More information can be found here: https://pypi.org/project/poppler-utils/ https://pypi.org/project/poppler-utils/

Etheryte 3y ago

If you happen to be on macOS, the Preview app does an absurd number of things to PDFs, and it does it well. To be honest I'm always surprised it isn't highlighted more by Apple, it's a great tool that pretty much always just works. You can split files, join them, rotate, add signatures, drawings, annotations, redact sections, etc. The feature list is long, especially considering that by the name of the application you'd think it could just preview files, not edit them.

sumedh 3y ago
> to be honest I'm always surprised it isn't highlighted more by Apple Probably because its not so intuitive, I have to google how to use some of the advanced features of Preview.

cde-v 3y ago

Edge is surprising decent for marking up PDFs.

somethingsome 3y ago

I often use PDF Sam (basic) and usually it works quite well and is offline. https://pdfsam.org/ https://pdfsam.org/

jftuga 3y ago

A really nice, stand-alone command line tool is pdfcpu. https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu

rodlette 3y ago
Looks great, but my partner needs something more convenient. It needs to be web based and work on desktop/mobile.

bayindirh 3y ago

KDE’s Okular. Works on Linux, Windows and macOS. If you’re on already macOS, Preview already has you covered.

jbc1 3y ago

Does it need to be a self hosted web based tool or do you just need PDF software? If the latter I find PDF Expert to be powerful and nice to use.

tony69 3y ago

I use pdftool.org which I saw on HN a while back