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Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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Can it add attachments to pdf files?. Until this year I did not even know that this was possible but a government agency asked me to add files as attachments to a pdf as their website only allowed uploading valid pdf files.

Have learned about it this year as well

Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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I have a PDF problem that I thought was simple but has proven difficult to solve and there is no paid solution I’ve found…

I want to forward an email to an inbox, have the email body converted into a PDF, and then email that attachment to someone all automatically. I’ve tried Make, Zapier, pdf.co, pdftool, and a few other tools but have had no success. Has anyone solved this problem reliably?

Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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I have a PDF problem that I thought was simple but has proven difficult to solve and there is no paid solution I’ve found… I want to forward an email to an inbox, have the email body converted into a PDF, and then email that attachment to someone all automatically. I’ve tried Make, Zapier, pdf.co, pdftool, and a few other tools but have had no success. Has anyone solved this problem reliably?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38545255

https://www.tapdone.com/

perhaps? Or something similar?

Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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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 alternatives I should be considering?

Edge is surprising decent for marking up PDFs.

Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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I have a PDF problem that I thought was simple but has proven difficult to solve and there is no paid solution I’ve found… I want to forward an email to an inbox, have the email body converted into a PDF, and then email that attachment to someone all automatically. I’ve tried Make, Zapier, pdf.co, pdftool, and a few other tools but have had no success. Has anyone solved this problem reliably?

If you are able to code or can ask someone, then you should be able to do it with some email api service (Nylas, AWS SES, etc) or headless client that gets the body of the email and convert it to pdf using wkhtmltopdf and then send it as attachment using the same service as before.

Using low/no code tools might be very hard/unlikely

Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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I still couldn't find a tool for a difficult problem to solve. I have some magazines in PDF, with layouts in two columns, etc. I want them to be transformed into Markdown. I know, it should identify automatically the two columns, different layouts, etc.

I am not desiring something perfect - I can fix if ther are some errors, but so far nothing has come with a good result.

Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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I have a PDF problem that I thought was simple but has proven difficult to solve and there is no paid solution I’ve found… I want to forward an email to an inbox, have the email body converted into a PDF, and then email that attachment to someone all automatically. I’ve tried Make, Zapier, pdf.co, pdftool, and a few other tools but have had no success. Has anyone solved this problem reliably?

I did something like this 10 years ago as an internal tool for a company. BAck then I did it with Outlook VBA.

Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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I have a PDF problem that I thought was simple but has proven difficult to solve and there is no paid solution I’ve found… I want to forward an email to an inbox, have the email body converted into a PDF, and then email that attachment to someone all automatically. I’ve tried Make, Zapier, pdf.co, pdftool, and a few other tools but have had no success. Has anyone solved this problem reliably?

Google Apps Script can do all of this. Take the email body and put it into a Google doc, then export the doc as a pdf to drive and attach it from there to send.
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