BentoPDF is for editing PDFs, Paperless is for organizing PDFs. Think GIMP vs Immich.
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non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Maybe I don’t understand the use case for bentopdf, and considering how popular it is, that is likely true. However, I don’t get what this does…
- it’s self-hosted, but the processing happens on the client? Is this just a local application?
- it only works with PDF documents?
- What advantage does bentopdf have over something like paperless ng?
Again, if this is obvious to most ppl, forgive me.
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 2 days ago
kumi@feddit.online 2 days ago
Maybe I don’t understand the use case for bentopdf, and considering how popular it is, that is likely true
Especially in this day and age, be careful with believing something is right (or even popular) just becuse it looks popular. Talking about generalities here and tje cognitive pattern, not to dunk on the project apart from their communications implying that correlation.
BarHocker@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
You are not alone, I am also not sure about its benefits.
alam@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hello!
Bento on the other hand, is a full PDF Toolkit, that allows you to edit, compress, annotate, sign, redact, convert pdf to other formats and convert to pdf from other formats, converting pdf for ai ingestion etc. Basically everything related to PDFs. Hope that helps.
fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 days ago
it works great!
alam@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Thank you !
non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
With respect, help me out here…
I process PDFs all the time, both assembling text and images into PDFs and extracting. My uses are mostly cleaning up metadata and unwanted elements so they render correctly in more environments. I use pdftk and imagemagick for this, generally.
Is bentopdf just a nice GUI for tools like these?
I’m struggling to understand what part of bentopdf is “self-hosted”.
alam@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hello. BentoPDF does provide a GUI for operations like the ones you mentioned. However, the main goal of Bento was to bring capabilities that traditionally only exist in backend or native tools, such as Ghostscript, qpdf, LibreOffice, PyMuPDF, and similar stacks onto the web.
Beyond that, there are many workflows that don’t translate well to a CLI at all such as drag and drop merging and organization, visual page manipulation, form creation, cropping, annotations, and text editing. These are hard to do reliably or efficiently in a terminal, and not everyone uses or is comfortable working with CLI tools.
So all the processing happens in the browser and you get a local hostable, OS agnostic tool without needing native dependencies installed on the system. Hope that somewhat clears your doubt
non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fair enough, thanks for taking the time.