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PdfDing - Now with editing functionalities (github.com)

submitted 1 day ago by mrmn@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi c/selfhosted,

I am the developer of PdfDing. As this feature was requested quite often I wanted to inform you that it is now possible to edit PDFs by adding annotations, highlighting and drawings. You can find the repo here.

I also got the feedback that organizing PDFs with simple tags does not work for many people. It is now possible to organize PDFs with multi-level tags. I hope this will improve the user experience.

If you like PdfDing I would be really happy over a star on GitHub. As the project is open source, if anyone wants to contribute you are welcome to do so!

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[–] Discover5164@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

how this compare with https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF ?

i have this hosted, should i switch?

[–] mrmn@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It depends on you use case. Stirling PDF focuses on performing various operations like splitting, cropping and rotating on your PDFs. PdfDing has a different focus, it is all about reading and organizing your PDFs. I started this project because I wanted a web app where I can read longer PDFs seamlessly on my desktop and mobile devices.

The newly added editing features were implemented with the aim of improving the reading experience. If I find something important I can add an annotation or highlight something. When studying you can add free hand notes to your files.

I hope that helps in differentiating the two applications.

[–] Discover5164@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

very cool, are you planning an android app?

[–] mrmn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is not planned right now as I never developed an android app before. But who knows, I am also not a frontend dev, yet here we are :D

I am planning on developing a Rest API, hopefully I can do this in such a way that someone from community is able to create a mobile application.

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

I nowadays I don't see much benefit of dedicated Android apps in these cases (clients of hosted content). If your webapp works well for mobile browsers than making it a pwa is not much more than adding a single file and it feels pretty native to me. So you safe tons of development work. Or am I missing on something?