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I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

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Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

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You can easily block network access for an app on Windows using Windows Firewall. Same on a few Android skins such as MIUI by Xiaomi

same is true for Chrome Browser, open dev tools and select Network to "Offline"

Thanks

Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

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Unfortunately, most of the PDF work I do involves things I’m not uploading to a service - ever. I don’t care if they’re “deleted immediately after processing” - they left my control. This sort of software would be great if it were 100% offline. This isn’t just a niche issue either: this is a very real consideration for any corporate user. More companies are taking data loss and security issues seriously, which often…

I work at https://www.pdf-tools.com and we hear this again and again. Despite the proliferation of cloud services, most large enterprises DO NOT want their sensitive documents entering the cloud. And in some cases, e.g. patient medical records, there are strict regulations about how those documents can be stored, which means on-premise is a requirement. Good news for us, as that's what we specialise in, but also perp…

You seem to think that users want everything in the cloud and that’s what’s causing the proliferation of cloud services. You are wrong. Users want _convenience_. They couldn’t care less about the cloud or technical details. If your website can do what they want to do without uploading their documents to your server then and if it’s faster and cheaper then that’s what they’ll prefer.

Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

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docker pull frooodle/stirling-pdf-base

This was on hn a couple of days ago. Stirling pdf is a self hosted docker container and this way you don’t have to worry about files being uploaded. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40242639 I almost thought this hn post was the same service wrapped in a show and tell.

I had just setup "Stirling PDF" on my home NAS a few of weeks ago, since my SO needed to merge some documents and I'd recently read that (or a similar) HN thread.

I definitely would recommend it. It was really quick to setup; though my already having a reverse proxy with wild card TLS certs setup probably helped streamline the networking side of things.

https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

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Unfortunately, most of the PDF work I do involves things I’m not uploading to a service - ever. I don’t care if they’re “deleted immediately after processing” - they left my control. This sort of software would be great if it were 100% offline. This isn’t just a niche issue either: this is a very real consideration for any corporate user. More companies are taking data loss and security issues seriously, which often…

this might be a stupid question, but how do the teams share the documents?

Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

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Unfortunately, most of the PDF work I do involves things I’m not uploading to a service - ever. I don’t care if they’re “deleted immediately after processing” - they left my control. This sort of software would be great if it were 100% offline. This isn’t just a niche issue either: this is a very real consideration for any corporate user. More companies are taking data loss and security issues seriously, which often…

For anyone looking edit/fill PDFs locally (the data you fill in and document you load stay in your browser): https://SimplePDF.eu

You can read more in the privacy policy [1]

It can also be embed in any website [2]

Disclosure: I’m the developer behind it

[1] https://simplepdf.eu/privacy-policy

[2] https://simplepdf.github.io/

Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

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No PHP nor JavaScript SDK? You guys don't like money?

It's a fair point. Most of our customers work with CPP, C# and Java in enterprise / back office contexts, which is why no PHP or Javascript right now - we've been tied up with other priorities. That said we just added Python to our main SDK and PHP is coming. Plus our enterprise automation product can basically talk to anything via REST API ( https://www.pdf-tools.com/docs/conversion-service/api/conver... ). But yeah…

I would think that JS/TS support would be relatively high up... my own bias speaking, but a lot of development and effort to easing cloud apps is JS/TS centric.

Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

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using this myself. its pretty good.

Only last week there was a HN thread about how the author said they just used chatgpt to make the entire thing and as a result the code is beyond bad. I don't think I'd trust it.

>I don't think I'd trust it.

You can audit the code yourself then. What's stopping you?

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