Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor

Post by Metricshour » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 3:38 AM UTC

kevlened wrote: post #43

For those looking for an MIT alternative, there's an embeddable solution which uses PDFium (Apache) compiled to wasm instead of MuPDF (AGPL): https://www.embedpdf.com/ There's a hosted version for quick edits: https://app.embedpdf.com/ Discussion from several months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44901683 Neither fully handles XFA, but that's a perennial struggle.

Post by efilife » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 9:12 AM UTC

AlexeyBelov wrote: post #53

pshirshov wrote: post #34

Well, all the agents, including free and even local ones could do this for less money and without AGPL violations. Just tell them what you need to change/merge and they literally do it just fine. Or they could write reusable python/whatever scripts for you. These days $12/month for a vibe-coded PDF editor running locally is a robbery. Also, let me quote: > BentoPDF (12.3k stars): https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf…

I like how he doesn't acknowledge AGPL violation at all..