bentopdf

BentoPDF is a toolkit for working with PDF files that runs entirely inside your web browser. Its main selling point is privacy: according to the README, the files you open are never sent to a server, because all the editing and conversion happens locally on your own machine. This means you can merge, split, edit, and convert documents without uploading them anywhere.

The project lists more than 50 tools grouped into categories. You can organize and manage PDFs by merging several files into one, splitting a document into smaller files, reordering or deleting pages with drag and drop, and extracting a range of pages as a new file. The README also describes tools for editing PDFs, converting other file types into PDF, converting PDF into other formats, and securing or compressing documents.

BentoPDF can be run in several ways. You can use the hosted version, or self host it. The README covers running it with Docker Compose or Podman, deploying it to static hosts such as Netlify, Vercel, and GitHub Pages, and setting it up for air-gapped or offline use. Some of the heavier features rely on WASM modules, which are small programs that run in the browser, loaded from a public CDN by default, though you can point these at your own copies for offline setups.

The code is dual licensed. The README states it is free under the AGPL-3.0 license for open-source use, while a one-time $79 commercial license is offered for closed-source or proprietary applications. It notes that some PDF processing libraries it connects to, such as PyMuPDF and Ghostscript, are themselves AGPL licensed and are pre-configured rather than bundled.

In short, BentoPDF is aimed at people who want a free, self-hostable option for handling PDFs without handing their files to a third party. The full README is longer than what was shown.