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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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[–] mrmn 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What’s up with changing to github?

I answered this in another thread, so I just copy it here. I hope that's okay.

I tried to make codeberg work, but it is really hard to gain traction and interaction with the community over there. For example, while I got 3 issues from the community on codeberg in over 5 months, on github I already got two in just two days. Of course it could be a coincidence or the same users as on codeberg.

I am developing PdfDing not only for myself but also as way to give back to the community for all the great projects I am using. So I want it to be used by many people. I want and need the interaction with the community. The issues I got until now were great feature requests that I would have not thought of on my own. Maybe I will also get contributors, would be great for sure.

but the biggest thing I see missing is support for indexing / searching documents.

I think it would be quite cool to have support for indexing / searching documents. I am not exactly sure how to do or to incorporate it but there should be a way :). For now it's not on top of my to-do list as there are some core features I am still missing and want to finish first. Feel free to create an issue on GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah that makes sense I didn't mean in any aggressive way I guess codeberg is archived so that answers the question of what one to use for issues and such. I'll put up a feature request on it. I do appreciate the work and have been watching it progress!