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alam00000/bentopdf

The Privacy First PDF Toolkit

Node.jsVite#adobe-acrobat#docker#hacktoberfest#javascript

Difficulty: Moderate
Time: about 15 min
Stars: ★ 16,251
Activity: Updated this month
License: AGPL-3.0
Open issues: 162
Got it running: Be the first
Looked up: 5 h ago

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Start here

Website ↗bentopdf.comThe project's own site.Docs ↗bentopdf.comLinked from the README.

Will it work on my device?

Yes, with Docker on macOS

It's a self-hosted app: the README runs it with Docker, and you open it in your browser.
On macOS that means installing Docker Desktop first.

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Run it with Docker

A self-hosted app: Docker runs it on your computer and you open it in the browser. Needs Docker Desktop (or Docker Engine on Linux). Run docker compose commands inside the cloned repo folder.

Docker

docker run -p 3000:8080 ghcr.io/alam00000/bentopdf-simple:latest

Docker

docker run -p 3000:8080 bentopdfteam/bentopdf-simple:latest

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

Did you get it running?

No reports for macOS yet.

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Claude reads the 12 key files and writes a step-by-step guide for macOS. Once written, it's saved for everyone.

Parts list

1×Node.js 20runtime
1×Docker tool
1×npm package manager

14× settings in .env

VITE_CORS_PROXY_URL
VITE_CORS_PROXY_SECRETsecret
VITE_WASM_PYMUPDF_URL
VITE_WASM_GS_URL
VITE_WASM_CPDF_URL
VITE_TESSERACT_WORKER_URL
VITE_TESSERACT_CORE_URL
VITE_TESSERACT_LANG_URL
VITE_TESSERACT_AVAILABLE_LANGUAGES
VITE_OCR_FONT_BASE_URL
VITE_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE
VITE_BRAND_NAME
VITE_BRAND_LOGO
VITE_FOOTER_TEXT

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package.json scripts (36)

predevnode scripts/generate-blog.mjs && node scripts/generate-static-tool-links.mjs
devvite
buildnode scripts/generate-blog.mjs && node scripts/generate-static-tool-links.mjs && tsc && vite build && node scripts/enhance-seo-pages.mjs && NODE_OPTIONS='--max-old-space-size=3072' node scripts/generate-i18n-pages.mjs && node scripts/generate-sitemap.mjs && node scripts/generate-security-headers.mjs && node scripts/apply-indexing-policy.mjs && node scripts/compress-static-assets.mjs && node scripts/seo-audit.mjs
seo-auditnode scripts/seo-audit.mjs
build:with-docsINCLUDE_DOCS=true npm run build && npm run docs:build && node scripts/include-docs-in-dist.js && node scripts/apply-indexing-policy.mjs && node scripts/compress-static-assets.mjs
build:gzipCOMPRESSION_MODE=g npm run build
build:brotliCOMPRESSION_MODE=b npm run build
build:originalCOMPRESSION_MODE=o npm run build
build:allCOMPRESSION_MODE=all npm run build
build:productionVITE_USE_CDN=true npm run build:with-docs
previewvite preview
obfuscatenode scripts/build.mjs
testvitest
test:uivitest --ui
test:runvitest run
test:coveragevitest run --coverage
test:watchvitest watch
build:dockervite build
formatprettier --write .
releasenode scripts/release.js patch
release:minornode scripts/release.js minor
release:majornode scripts/release.js major
serve:simpleSIMPLE_MODE=true npm run build && npm run preview -- --port 3000
servenpm run build && npm run preview -- --port 3000
packagenode scripts/package-dist.js

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.env.example

.github/workflows/build-and-publish.yml

.github/workflows/cla.yml

.github/workflows/codeql.yml

.github/workflows/docker-downloads-badge.yml

.github/workflows/seo-audit.yml

.github/workflows/tests.yml

Dockerfile

README.md

docker-compose.yml

docs/getting-started.md

package.json

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