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

Asking for a friend.

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

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

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

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

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!

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

love it been hosting mine for close to a month now

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

Looks great

Will try it, looks handy. Thanks!

I use this at home and I’m thinking of setting this up at work, to prevent my colleagues from using shady PDF-sites, for merging or splitting PDF-files.

How does the license work for internal use at a company, by it employees?

How does this compare tp stirling pdf?

Nice, and thanks for posting here! We have a lot of discussion about projects, and it's helpful when the creator/developer is around to respond to comments directly 😄

I saw the update on GitHub about the goal of working on it full time. I also swapped over from StirlingPDF and I'm excited to see where this project goes. Best of luck :)

It's not important but I guess it doesn't support auth? I've only got time to do a quick glance right now so I might have missed something.

I think a lot of people's use cases might be to integrate with other tools in their self-host stack like Authentik (could be solved by adding proxy auth if nothing exists natively) and Nextcloud or other filesharing/storing solutions.

If there aren't any capabilities like that then it could be food for thought for expansion. Otherwise great job! Right now it's still an upgrade from various shady PDF tool websites where you still have to download the PDF from your server to upload and process the files.

a small question, if I may.

When I worked in technical support for a popular phone brand a lifetime ago, I had to make clickable “navigatable” pdfs. Create empty objects around apps and settings so that technicians could help clients without having access to their phone or device with current OS update. I would update mine and take screen shots then convert those with clickable objects to switch to the correct page to act as a sudo phone/tablet. Is this something that BentoPDF can do?

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

This looks great!

Can you use it to overlay text fields and fill them?

Most of my uses are basic. Like filling out a PDF form that doesn't have proper form entry fields. These are usually older government or bureaucratic/healthcare/school forms.

I end up adding text boxes and entering values, or adding an X on top of a checkbox, adding a signature PNG file and scaling it to fit the size. Sometimes I have to add a highlight overlay. Then I save it all as a single flattened PDF file.

Amazingly, this is hard to do in Acrobat and a lot of apps. I end up using a janky, 10-yo desktop app that is no longer supported.

This is amazing, well done.

I have it on my laptop. Thank you for your efforts.

I don't suppose you're able to sign PDFs with something like a CAC card right? Is that still wholly in the realm of acrobat?

Literally the only thing I need another software to do so I can finally uninstall the last Adobe product from my VM. I'm running Linux so getting this functionality in Linux would be ideal. But since no one else has done it, I assume Adobe has some kind of stranglehold on that process?

You just made my life easier, Thank You.