Hi folks!

I’m the creator of BentoPDF. It is an open source PDF toolkit that runs entirely in your browser. Your documents stay private, by design.

BentoPDF started as a small side project, but over time it has grown into something much bigger. With our latest major update, BentoPDF now includes 100+ tools, all running fully client-side.

You can do the basics like merge PDFs(while preserving bookmarks), split documents, extract or delete pages, reorder files, rotate pages, and compress PDFs. Thee are also some advanced tools.

You can edit and annotate PDFs directly in the browser: highlight text, add comments, draw shapes, insert images, fill(including XFA) and create forms, manage bookmarks, generate tables of contents, redact, add headers, footers, watermarks, and page numbers.

BentoPDF also supports an extensive range of file conversions. You can convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Pages, CSV, RTF, EPUB, MOBI, comic book formats, and many more into PDFs, and also convert PDFs back into Word, Excel, images, Markdown, CSV, JSON, and plain text.

For images, BentoPDF supports a massive variety of formats, including HEIC, WebP, SVG, PSD, JP2, and and aalso other formats such as EPUB, CBR/CBZ. You can convert images to PDFs, extract images from PDFs in their original format, or rasterize PDFs with full DPI control.

There are also organization and optimization tools: OCR, PDF/A conversion, booklet creation, N-up layouts, page division, attachment management, layer (OCG) editing, metadata inspection and editing, repair tools, and advanced compression algorithms that rival commercial solutions.

The latest update also includes AI ready extraction tools to export PDFs to structured JSON, extract tables as CSV/Markdown/JSON, and prepare PDFs for RAG and LLM workflows.

All of this works entirely in the browser, without accounts, uploads, or tracking.

This is my first post here and I hope you like it. Any feedback or feature requests are appreciated. Thank you.

Github Link: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf

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[–] 1 point 6 days ago

This is really great. Check Hypic for PC

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  • [–] 183 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Can it also redact text from documents without allowing you to just copy and paste it back out again?

    Asking for a friend.

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  • [–] 73 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Great project. I like the 1-star reviews complaining about the lack of advertising and tracking.

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    [–] 63 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I use this already. Works great. Thanks for your hard work on this.

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    You're doing the lords work my dude. There are not enough ways to thank you for your work

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    [–] 32 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you so much. Why did you start this project, which certainly involves a lot of work? ( aka why are you so cool?)

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Thank you! It started off as a simple tool as I wanted to merge PDFs visually by applying page ranges and I couldn't find any offline tool for that. I happened to then post it on reddit, and people asked me to open source it. After which I kept adding features on request and here we are 😂

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Been using this for a while now, wife and kids are also very pleased with it. Easy to use and great layout, thank you so much!

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    [–] 28 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The day I can digitally sign PDFs from this, it'd be the PDF editor. You're doing the Lord's work, thank you very much for this!

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you so much for this. We just started using it at our school. We were using StirlingPDF, but they went open core 🫤. Personally, I like that there is no auth, it keeps it simple.

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    [–] 21 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    I've used it before for a job application! I needed to send them sensitive data. Tysm!

    Great intuitive UI, does what it says, and it's fast. 5/5

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    I've used Stirling pdf in the past. How does it compare?

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Not sure, as I haven't used Stirling and at the same time I didn't make it to compete with other tools. Hence I never mention its better than xyz tool either on our github or website. Users would have to do their own due diligence in this case. However it does have the best bookmark tool in the market(yes, better than adobe acrobat) and also a form creator tool, among others, which you can't find in other OS tools.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, I think this is just one where you try it for yourself. The compose file is about 4 lines long, I had the whole thing up and running in about 30 seconds (OK, 45; I forgot a port was already in use and had to redeploy).

    So far my one big complaint would be that the self-hosted version replicates the entire website, including all of the "Why choose Bento PDF" and "Try now" and so on. It'd be nice to just have the tools right there when I load it up. Other than that, well, it looks cool, I'll know more once I actually try out the available options.

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    [–] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    What I would love to see is batch processing of mapped form fields from a PDF template, e.g. to fill out training certificate template pdfs with name, date, company, and instructor from a given CSV file, add a signature and print it. Is something like that possible? 🙂

    We currently use nodered, python and reportlab and I‘m looking to somewht simplify the process :)

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    [–] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Are there ways to use it via an API? In particular I'd love to be able to programmatically submit a Word or Excel document and receive a PDF back

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Agreed. I spent a bit of time writing out a script for similar functionality for one of our business units, but I never was able to figure out how to convert excel sheets to a PDF to be able to merge them in the allotted time, so it just doesn't support them lol.

    But I can see why it wouldn't have an API, since the whole deal is it stays in your browser, and an API would mean sending the files to the server.

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    [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    From just a quick look so far, it seems really versatile. Thanks for the work you’ve put into this!

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I had no clue this existed!!! Thanks for sharing.

    Would you say that BentoPDF is an alternative to Adobe Acrobat and/or Bluebeam Revu?

    I use those for my job, but it'd be nice to have a FLOSS alternative as a backup

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    [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you so much for your amazing work! I had to sign something a few weeks ago on a new PC and Bento is so easy

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    [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    love it been hosting mine for close to a month now

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    [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Will try it, looks handy. Thanks!

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    The logo: all i see us the head between open legs

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