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PdfDing - Over 500 stars on Github, Helm Chart, new features, new theme and design improvements (github.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by mrmn to c/selfhosted

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Hi c/selfhosted,

here's another Update on PdfDing, the selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. You can find the repo here.

Thanks to being included in the favorite selfhosted apps launched in 2024 on selfh.st, PdfDings's popularity improved greatly. This week the project crossed the 500 Stars on github, which was a big milestone for me. Thanks! Another thing that made me quite happy is that PdfDing got its first two contributions!

Milestones aside there were also new features and improvements since my last post:

PDFs can be starred and archived. Starred and archived PDFs can be quickly accessed in the overview. Archived PDFs are hidden from the default overview.
New (beautiful) theme inspired by fli.so. You can find a screenshot here.
Preview mode: the first page of each PDF can be shown in the overview without entering the viewer.
Optional thumbnail mode: The first page of each PDF will be shown as a thumbnail in the overview.
Design improvements that (in my opinion) make the whole application feel cleaner and more beautiful
I have created a helm chart so it can be easily installed on Kubernetes

As always I am happy if you star the repo or if someone wants to contribute.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (8 children)

I am considering switching from paperless but I can't find anything about ocr. Does anybody know?

[–] pirat 2 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Why not paperless? I've thought of trying out paperless-ngx but would like to hear about your experiences with it or other thoughts about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Paperless ngx has been a game changer for me. I only wish I had a better scanner, or more specifically, a sheet feed scanner which would make scanning stacks of papers way easier.

I’d say give it a shot. All your PDFs are stored nicely in one directory (PDFs are sorted in app by tags) so it’s easy to migrate if you need.

[–] non_burglar 1 points 8 hours ago

Depends on your workflow.

Paperless itself is great, but it cannot ingest half my PDF bills and invoices due to limitations on the conversion tools dependency.
support for interpreting US/EU conventions for date and time takes careful workflow rules, automation can have weird results
multi user support is a bit of a mess

In short, it's great for single user, single workflow cases, but not so much for just ingesting all kinds of docs and having truly helpful doc processing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

It's hungry in resources. But most of all it's complex. It's more suited for medium sized company's or at least it feels like that.

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