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PDFLince
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GSiesto / PDFLince

PDFLince

The privacy-first, client-side PDF toolkit. Compress, Merge, Split, Reorder and Convert PDFs entirely in your browser without server uploads.

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61GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

The privacy-first, client-side PDF toolkit. Compress, Merge, Split, Reorder and Convert PDFs entirely in your browser without server uploads.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

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

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-02-18 10:24:14 UTC to 2026-03-30 01:15:20 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

01232026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 162026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 92026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 30

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Feb 162026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC110
Feb 232026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 22026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 92026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 162026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 232026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC303
Mar 302026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

5 sources
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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