GitHub - mrmn2/PdfDing: Selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices.
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Selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. - mrmn2/PdfDing

Hi c/selfhosted,

I am the developer of PdfDing. As this feature was requested quite often I wanted to inform you that it is now possible to edit PDFs by adding annotations, highlighting and drawings. You can find the repo here.

I also got the feedback that organizing PDFs with simple tags does not work for many people. It is now possible to organize PDFs with multi-level tags. I hope this will improve the user experience.

If you like PdfDing I would be really happy over a star on GitHub. As the project is open source, if anyone wants to contribute you are welcome to do so!

  • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    11 hours ago

    Do I understand correct that it is a document manager, specialized on PDFs? I tried various EDMs for personal use (e.g. Mayan, paperless), but was never really happy, so maybe I find time to give it a spin.

    • mrmn@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      13·
      1 day ago

      It depends on you use case. Stirling PDF focuses on performing various operations like splitting, cropping and rotating on your PDFs. PdfDing has a different focus, it is all about reading and organizing your PDFs. I started this project because I wanted a web app where I can read longer PDFs seamlessly on my desktop and mobile devices.

      The newly added editing features were implemented with the aim of improving the reading experience. If I find something important I can add an annotation or highlight something. When studying you can add free hand notes to your files.

      I hope that helps in differentiating the two applications.

        • mrmn@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          It is not planned right now as I never developed an android app before. But who knows, I am also not a frontend dev, yet here we are :D

          I am planning on developing a Rest API, hopefully I can do this in such a way that someone from community is able to create a mobile application.

          • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            11 hours ago

            I nowadays I don’t see much benefit of dedicated Android apps in these cases (clients of hosted content). If your webapp works well for mobile browsers than making it a pwa is not much more than adding a single file and it feels pretty native to me. So you safe tons of development work. Or am I missing on something?

  • tyrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Have dimensioning and scaling on there? I have yet to find a good PDF program in Linux for working with architectural drawings. In Windows I use pdfxchange (and also through wine in Linux) but would love a native solution.

    • sansrealname@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      Surprised to find a fellow pdfxchange user. I use it for work where I deal with a lot of electronics/components datasheets. Pdfxchange’s search functionality/UI is superior to every other PDF viewer/editor I’ve tried. I’d love to find an open-source alternative.

      • tyrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        It’s so much better than the other PDF things I’ve used. I can measure drawings, set dimensioning scale, comment, edit, all easily. I don’t know why more software doesn’t take their lead. Bluebeam is industry standard for my world and it’s way more expensive and way worse of a product. Pdfxchange users unite!