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  • With respect, help me out here…

    I process PDFs all the time, both assembling text and images into PDFs and extracting images, text, layouts, etc. 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”.


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    2 days ago

    Maybe I don’t understand the use case for bentopdf, and considering how popular it is, that is likely true. However, I don’t get what this does…

    • it’s self-hosted, but the processing happens on the client? Is this just a local application?
    • it only works with PDF documents?
    • What advantage does bentopdf have over something like paperless ng?

    Again, if this is obvious to most ppl, forgive me.