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PdfDing - Selfhosted PDF Manager and Viewer (github.com)

submitted 2 days ago by mrmn to c/selfhosted

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Hi /c/selfhosted,

I want to introduce PdfDing to this community. PdfDing is a PDF manager and viewer that you can host yourself. It offers a seamless user experience on multiple devices. It's designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker. The repo can be found here. Features include:

Seamless browser based PDF viewing on multiple devices
Dark Mode, colored themes and custom theme colors
Inverted color mode for reading PDFs
Remembers current position - continue where you stopped reading
SSO support via OIDC
Share PDFs with an external audience via a link or a QR Code
Shared PDFs can be password protected and access can be controlled with a maximum number of views and an expiration date
Automated and encrypted backups to S3 compatible storage

I would be very happy if you wold give PdfDing a try. If you like it, be sure to leave a star :)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What is the benefit over something like stirling-pdf?

[–] mrmn 4 points 2 days ago

PdfDing has a totally different use case than stirling-pdf. stirling-pdf is for manupilating PDF files, in contrast the PdfDing is for viewing and managing PdfFiles.

There are also self-hostable ebook readers, but they (at least the ones I have tried) don't allow individual users to upload their own files. Usually there is an admin curating the content. Also sharing content with an external audience is difficult.