I am building a self-hosted PDF manager, viewer and editor

Selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. - mrmn2/PdfDing

Hi,

over the last six months I have been building PdfDing. You can find it on github.

PdfDing is a selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. Some of its features include:

Remembers current position - continue where you stopped reading on any device
Edit PDFs by adding annotations, highlighting and drawings
Share PDFs with an external audience via a link or a QR Code. Shared PDFs can be access controlled
Dark Mode, colored themes and custom theme colors
Inverted color mode for reading PDFs
SSO support via OIDC
Markdown Notes

The project is built using Django, Alpine JS, htmx, Tailwind CSS and Mozilla's pdf.js.

If you like PdfDing please consider giving the project a star on github. If anyone wants to contribute you are welcome to do so!

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how does this compare to https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF ?
- https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
  
  Your link is broken, linking to https://programming.dev/post/Stirling-PDF
- Their README has a section regarding that https://github.com/mrmn2/PdfDing/blob/master/README.md#comparison-with-stirling-pdf
  
  ... Stirling PDF focuses on performing various operations like splitting, cropping and rotating on your PDFs. PdfDing however has a different focus, it is all about reading and organizing your PDFs. ...
PDF is a broad format with various standards and formats. Which ones does PdfDing support?
- The project is using mozilla's pdf.js library for displaying pdfs (this is also used for firefox's build in pdf reader). As far as I am aware it should be able to work with (allmost) all pdf files.
I'm not a huge fan of python projects in general, they tend to be wildly unreliable in the long run (more the fault of python itself than the devs but the fact remains) however i am looking for something exactly like this so I'm gonna give it a shot

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