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alam00000 / bentopdf

bentopdf

The Privacy First PDF Toolkit

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2025-10-29 21:31:29 UTC to 2026-08-30 15:57:11 UTC.

012342025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsOct 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 commentsMar 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsAug 2026

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__alam__·Aug 30, 2026Submission

Show HN: BentoPDF, Hyper Compress and Kura

Hello. I developed an open source tool called BentoPDF. Its an open source PDF toolkit that runs in your browser. With the latest update, you can actually edit existing pdf text, images and objects right in your browser. Live Website: https://www.bentopdf.com Repository: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf Along with the latest update I would like to share with you Hyper Compress. Its a high fidelity, content preserving compression engine that preserves PDF conformance and surpasses all the other open source PDF compression tools. It runs everywhere: CLI, Node SDK, C API, self hosted service, and also in browser via WebAssembly. Live Website: https://hyper.bentopdf.com Repository and benchmarks: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf-hyper-compress Kura is a PDF standards, conversion and preflight engine. It supports: - All 11 PDF/A conf
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ormance levels: PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2a, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-2u, PDF/A-3a, PDF/A-3b, PDF/A-3u, PDF/A-4, PDF/A-4e and PDF/A-4f - Accessibility: PDF/UA-1 and PDF/UA-2 - Print production: PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-4p, PDF/X-5g, PDF/X-5n and PDF/X-5pg - Engineering and variable data printing: PDF/E-1 and PDF/VT - E-invoices: Factur-X, ZUGFeRD, XRechnung and Order-X - 396 bundled print-preflight profiles It has been tested against several standards suites, including the veraPDF corpus, Isartor, BFO, Ghent Output Suite 5.0, the PDF/UA Reference Suite and Cal Poly's PDF/VT suite. Across 30,677 PDF conversions it had zero crashes and zero timeouts, with a 0.05 second median conversion time. Like Hyper, it ships as a CLI, C library, npm package, Docker image and WebAssembly build. Live Website: https://kura.bentopdf.com/ Repository and benchmarks: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf-kura Both Kura and Hyper Compress are running the WASM build so none of your PDF is uploaded and everything runs in your browserr If possible I would like you guys to try them out and give me feedback on how it worked for you. Thank you.
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pshirshov·Mar 29, 2026
Well, all the agents, including free and even local ones could do this for less money and without AGPL violations. Just tell them what you need to change/merge and they literally do it just fine. Or they could write reusable python/whatever scripts for you. These days $12/month for a vibe-coded PDF editor running locally is a robbery. Also, let me quote: > BentoPDF (12.3k stars): https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf > PDFCraft (3.6k stars): https://github.com/PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft > PDFLince (31 stars): https://github.com/GSiesto/pdflince
In Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor

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