Hi c/selfhosted,

here’s another Update on PdfDing, the selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. You can find the repo here.

Thanks to being included in the favorite selfhosted apps launched in 2024 on selfh.st, PdfDings’s popularity improved greatly. This week the project crossed the 500 Stars on github, which was a big milestone for me. Thanks! Another thing that made me quite happy is that PdfDing got its first two contributions!

Milestones aside there were also new features and improvements since my last post:

  • PDFs can be starred and archived. Starred and archived PDFs can be quickly accessed in the overview. Archived PDFs are hidden from the default overview.
  • New (beautiful) theme inspired by fli.so. You can find a screenshot here.
  • Preview mode: the first page of each PDF can be shown in the overview without entering the viewer.
  • Optional thumbnail mode: The first page of each PDF will be shown as a thumbnail in the overview.
  • Design improvements that (in my opinion) make the whole application feel cleaner and more beautiful
  • I have created a helm chart so it can be easily installed on Kubernetes

As always I am happy if you star the repo or if someone wants to contribute.

  • @non_burglar
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    17 hours ago

    Depends on your workflow.

    • Paperless itself is great, but it cannot ingest half my PDF bills and invoices due to limitations on the conversion tools dependency.
    • support for interpreting US/EU conventions for date and time takes careful workflow rules, automation can have weird results
    • multi user support is a bit of a mess

    In short, it’s great for single user, single workflow cases, but not so much for just ingesting all kinds of docs and having truly helpful doc processing.