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Re:Show HN: Privacy friendly suite of PDF tools on Thursday February 09, 2023 @01:56PM (#34729218)
wow, ok didn't know that. Thanks a lot for letting me know.
Re:Show HN: Privacy friendly suite of PDF tools on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:53PM (#34728163)
Thanks a lot for your input. I agree that it can be a good idea to make it clearer that this is like a local / offline tool since that is the biggest difference compared to other tools. Will definitely try to make this clearer.

I am not sure what you mean by the "WASM locally manipulated notifier"?

Digital signature is a good idea for feature, I have added it to my feature todo list.

Re:Show HN: Privacy friendly suite of PDF tools on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:25AM (#34726436)
Yes, it is a C++ library I have created and compiled to WebAssembly.
Re:Show HN: Privacy friendly suite of PDF tools on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:24AM (#34726420)
It is a very small PDF library that I have written myself in C++. I am planning to release the source, but haven't decided on the license yet. It is very limited in features compared to the whole PDF specification but I am planning to keep adding to it.
Re:Show HN: Privacy friendly suite of PDF tools on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:58AM (#34725901)
Noted it in my list as well, thank you!
Re:Show HN: Privacy friendly suite of PDF tools on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:57AM (#34725875)
Thank you. Sejda has a lot of features and seems to be a solid tool. The big difference between Sejda's online tool and pdfux is that with Sejda (and most online PDF tools), your file is transferred over the internet to Sejda's server where it is stored, processed and sent back to you. Then they promise to delete it. Personally I am not 100% comfortable using this kind of tools with files that I wouldn't want to share with anyone. (I also see that Sejda has a desktop version for offline use which seems to be their answer to the privacy concern.)
Re:Show HN: Privacy friendly suite of PDF tools on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:46AM (#34725636)
Happy to hear that you like it. As an example, I have started to look into if it is possible to add different features based on OCR. I still haven't gotten it to work but I think it should be possible. Some things are definitely harder to do in the browser vs on the server but still possible with some work.
Re:Show HN: Privacy friendly suite of PDF tools on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:18AM (#34725267)
I guess it is just as safe. One advantage that I see is that it runs in the browser so you don't have to install anything and can use it from any device with a web browser like your phone or tablet.
Re:Show HN: Privacy friendly suite of PDF tools on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:14AM (#34725191)
In general, I have been thinking about how to get some earnings from this, it would allow me to spend more time and continuing to improve the tool faster. I am still not sure the best way to do it without scaring away too many users. If I could get some earnings and also increase trust that would be great. Need to think about this idea, maybe I can do a test and see how it works out...

(I already ruled out ads, since I don't want to clutter the tool and also most ad networks are not exactly privacy friendly which one of the main ideas behind the tool)

Re:Show HN: Privacy friendly suite of PDF tools on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:09AM (#34725081)
Thank you :) I added this to my feature list, I will try to look into it.

Show HN: Privacy friendly suite of PDF tools

https://pdfux.com/

Hi HN,I have been working on a set of PDF tools that does all the processing directly in the web browser. From time to time I needed to do some simple PDF manipulations like merging PDF files. Sometimes the files contain my personal data and I was not comfortable using other online services where the file usually is uploaded to a remote server.Behind the scenes there is a small library written...

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