I hope they will add digital signing with certificates capabilities.
I guess you could reverse proxy with nginx?
As you probably should?
Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
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Re: Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
#22At least it is open source. It never hurts to have something web based but I prefer an application. I use a commercial product for Linux. Master PDF Editor. It is good, but their copy protection sucks. Better don't forget to "deregister" ist before wiping your harddrive, otherwise your code won't work. But there is always customer service....
Re: Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
#23I'd love it if this could be integrated into Paperless. Every now and then one of my scanned documents goes in upside down and I need to rescan. Clicking rotate, maybe reordering and letting it be rescanned would be great.
Re: Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
#24I host this at home. I don't use it myself, I can use the linux CLI tools that its based on. But I prefer my wife to use this to convert/split/etc. her pdf files this way instead of using some random website or app (that uses the same cli tool anyway).
She doesn't mind either way. Seems to work well enough for her use cases.
Re: Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
#25From the README: “Stirling PDF does not initiate any outbound calls for record-keeping or tracking purposes”. Beyond auditing the code, how could a potential user verify this claim in advance, and how can a web-based app help support such a claim (in particular when the app does need to make some web requests to operate, but only to a restricted list of URLs that might be listed in a manifest along the lines of a Con…
Little snitch[1] can help you out when self-hosting. When not self-hosting, all bets are off and my default stance is "expect the worst".
[1] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
Edit: LS is MacOS oriented. I'm sure there are others, but I'm not into it. I feel it should be an OS-level feature, but who am I.
Re: Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
#26The test coverage is pretty low. I'm raising a PR for this. Code quality not the best.
Well it was developed initially by ChatGPT. First file I open I see repeated comments.
https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/7f577a60...
Re: Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
#27I feel like everytime I log onto this site I encounter a finished project that's very similar to something I'm working on. I'm too slow (or project hop too much). Not that PDF related tools are uncommon but yeah I think people understand the sentiment. I'm also very surprised that for profit companies in the Document-manipulating/signing/storing still exist outside of niche industries (healthcare, govt, law) that req…
Manipulation and signing is the easy part. Robust storage, retrieval and deletion aren't so easy.
Reputation often matters more than price in this area, because the pricey services amount to peanuts compared to the business as a whole. It's like doing price optimisation on toilet paper in the office. And reputation is generally interpreted as a proxy for reliability and a guarantee that there will be someone to sue if things go bad.
Re: Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
#28> Originally developed entirely by ChatGPT, this locally hosted web application has evolved to encompass a comprehensive set of features, addressing all your PDF requirements. Well that's that then.
For me it means:
1) don't expose it to public internet
2) don't give it untrusted input
Which highly reduces the usability factor for me.
Re: Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
#29From the README: “Stirling PDF does not initiate any outbound calls for record-keeping or tracking purposes”. Beyond auditing the code, how could a potential user verify this claim in advance, and how can a web-based app help support such a claim (in particular when the app does need to make some web requests to operate, but only to a restricted list of URLs that might be listed in a manifest along the lines of a Con…
Little snitch[1] can help you out when self-hosting. When not self-hosting, all bets are off and my default stance is "expect the worst". [1] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html Edit: LS is MacOS oriented. I'm sure there are others, but I'm not into it. I feel it should be an OS-level feature, but who am I.
> LS is MacOS oriented
There's opensnitch on Linux. There's also something similar on Windows but I don't remember what it's called.
Re: Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
so do we trust it?
I once tried 3 hours to get ChatGPT to write a correct cubic interpolation function. Everything it wrote was either not cubic or not an interpolation function (the resulting curve didn't pass through the input points). So yeah.
Not sure what your point is. I probably couldn't write a correct cubic interpolation function in 3 hours if you stuck me in an empty room and kept giving me the same instruction with a small change every time. But I've definitely written software as complex as this project basically from memory with only the occasional glance at some framework docs.
Leetcode is a meaningless metric when evaluating application developers.