BentoPDF: privacy-first, client-side PDF toolkit (alternative to Stirling PDF)

[necrevistonnezr]

• Title: BentoPDF: BentoPDF is a powerful, privacy-first, client-side PDF toolkit that allows you to manipulate, edit, merge, and process PDF files directly in your browser. No server-side processing is required, ensuring your files remain secure and private.

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• Main Page: https://bentopdf.com/
• Git: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf
• Licence: Apache
• Dockerfile: Yes (as well as docker-compose)
• Demo: https://bentopdf.com/#tools-header

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• Summary: BentoPDF is a powerful, privacy-first, client-side PDF toolkit that allows you to manipulate, edit, merge, and process PDF files directly in your browser. No server-side processing is required, ensuring your files remain secure and private. Alternative to Stirling PDF.

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• Notes: comprehensive list of tools, permissive license, actively developed, privacy-minded and compliant, pretty .

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• Alternative to / Libhunt link: Stirling PDF
• Screenshots:
  

[jdaviescoates]

@necrevistonnezr just out of interest, is there any particular reason you'd prefer this to Stirling PDF?

Or are you just adding it because the more the merrier?

[necrevistonnezr]

The processing in the browser seems interesting, as indicated above.
Also, the „Pro“ version of Stirling worried me (maybe unjustified): https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/12683/stirling-pdf-pro-version-coming?_=1761310845378

[timconsidine]

I’m not a fan of Stirling so look forward to checking this out

[necrevistonnezr]

This is why we can't have nice things:
https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/releases/tag/v1.1.4

It recently came to my attention from a user of ours that a company was taking advantage of our open Apache 2.0 license. They repackaged BentoPDF, sold it as a proprietary product at a high price, and offered zero credit or contributions back to the community.
To be blunt, that’s not okay. It undermines the work of every single contributor and the entire spirit of the project.
That’s why we are switching BentoPDF to the AGPLv3 license.
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Here’s what you need to know:

• Commercial use is still allowed. You can continue to use BentoPDF in your products and for your company.
• If you modify BentoPDF and run it as a public-facing service (like a SaaS product), you must now share your source code under the same AGPLv3 license.
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Most importantly BentoPDF is still free and open source and always will be.