Nice Work,
I was literally trying to create something like this
Anyways good job
PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
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#32> "Keep your sensitive data to yourself. Wether you are modifying banking statements, prescription or other critical documents, we have no access to it."
> Source not available, no acknowledgement or explanation as to why
> Hacker News upvotes it to the front page
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#33> "Keep your sensitive data to yourself. Wether you are modifying banking statements, prescription or other critical documents, we have no access to it." > Source not available, no acknowledgement or explanation as to why > Hacker News upvotes it to the front page
Press F12.
Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#34> "Keep your sensitive data to yourself. Wether you are modifying banking statements, prescription or other critical documents, we have no access to it." > Source not available, no acknowledgement or explanation as to why > Hacker News upvotes it to the front page
Press F12.
It runs an opaque WASM.
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#35The lack of a good PDF editor in Linux has always seemed strange to me, considering the relative frequency of "fiddle with a PDF" tasks like splicing pages and so on. Sure you can do it with Pdftk (or stapler these days), and a mish-mash of pdfinfo, Imagemagick and so on but the GUI programs mostly seem pretty bad offerings considering they're a fairly thin shell around library operations.
Have a look at https://simplePDF.eu – online like PDFTool.org and with local processing as well.
It’s free and does not require an account (I don’t like websites that force you to sign up to do anything)
Disclosure: I’m the solo developer behind it
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#36The lack of a good PDF editor in Linux has always seemed strange to me, considering the relative frequency of "fiddle with a PDF" tasks like splicing pages and so on. Sure you can do it with Pdftk (or stapler these days), and a mish-mash of pdfinfo, Imagemagick and so on but the GUI programs mostly seem pretty bad offerings considering they're a fairly thin shell around library operations.
I've been using pdfarranger for years without issue. It's even available in the Debian (and probably Ubuntu) repositories (sudo apt-get install pdfarranger)
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#37Big fan of offline tools. I have a small collection of tools at https://www.webutils.app/ and have been meaning to add pdf tools for a while.
Can you please explain why? I care about privacy and security, and this trend seems like we're going backwards. If something needs network access, web apps make sense. But I liked offline tools better when we called them "programs". Web apps to me seem like they turn the web browser into an operating system. I already have an OS.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
> going to Russia? or China? always ironic when ppl say this on websites hosted in the us, a country with the most documented cases of governmental organisation backdooring/spying :/
> always ironic when ppl say this on websites hosted in the us, a country with the most documented cases of governmental organisation backdooring/spying :/ That is because other countries do not let you document/publish this information. :-) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/world/europe/russia-censo... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/uks-online-safety-bill... At least not as much as American courts will allow…
backdooring and censorship are two very different things
Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#39The lack of a good PDF editor in Linux has always seemed strange to me, considering the relative frequency of "fiddle with a PDF" tasks like splicing pages and so on. Sure you can do it with Pdftk (or stapler these days), and a mish-mash of pdfinfo, Imagemagick and so on but the GUI programs mostly seem pretty bad offerings considering they're a fairly thin shell around library operations.
There's a lack of good PDF editing in general.
Adobes OCR can't handle a simple black-white tax document. To say nothing of OCRing scans. God help you if one text field wasn't recognized, because you sure as hell can't add the missing field.
And handy functions like "combine two PDF pages into one" (for example, combining front and back scan of something) are always easier to do by Googling than by using any software, even when you pay for it.
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#40"uses WebAssembly" - forgive me but what? How do I know my PDF isn't going to Russia? or China? I mean, I could wireshark it but I'd like to know more about what's in the webassembly. PDF's are sensitive to some organizations. As already stated, some orgs even block online pdf tools for obvious reasons. I'm interested in this but I would be even more so if there was source so I can audit. Since it's running locally i…
You can check the network tab. WebAssembly doesn't have magic powers like ActiveX or something like that.
yeah, I checked the asm. using golang, imports some libs and is granted access to disk (sandbox). cool.