Comment on BentoPDF v1.16.0
alam@lemmy.world 2 days agoHello!
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.
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”.
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
Fair enough, thanks for taking the time.
fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 days ago
it works great!
alam@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Thank you !