Is there a FOSS selfhosteable alternative to iLovePDF?
from Maicon@sh.itjust.works to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 15 May 21:09
https://sh.itjust.works/post/38050628

For those who don’t know what iLovePDF is, it basically allows you to convert a literal equal copy of PDF into docx or a format more suited towards editing on LibreOffice/OpenOffice and some other things related to PDF, rarely losing some visual formatting when it does its usually related to the font but its not so often

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undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch on 15 May 21:19 next collapse

Might not be exactly what you’re looking for but I find Gotenberg quite handy for related activities.

tkw8@lemm.ee on 16 May 02:19 collapse

This is really neat!

rellik@lemm.ee on 15 May 21:32 next collapse

StirlingPDF converts from PDF to many thing including RTF, Word, and XML.

femtech@midwest.social on 15 May 22:17 collapse

That’s what I use.

Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show on 16 May 07:05 next collapse

LibeOffice Writer opens pdf’s just fine. Just save it as odt afterwards. Probably can’t do complex pdf’s this way, but in that case you shouldn’t really convert the pdf anyway as it will almost always loose some of the formatting or layout in the process.

Microw@lemm.ee on 16 May 08:25 next collapse

Oh I never knew this!

Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show on 16 May 08:40 collapse

Hm, it might not be as useful as I thought. Just tried it. It seems it wants to save them as “drawings”, because even though I chose to open in LibreOffice Writer, it opens it in LibreOffice Draw. My bad.

petri@sh.itjust.works on 16 May 11:11 collapse

Maybe they could improve this in the future but this and formatting not maintaining on opening PDFs is why many resort to other tools, StirlingPDF is opensource so I guess they could try finding similar solutions to opening PDF as is with all the formatting. You can force open with LibreOffice Writer but the formatting will be all messed up

petri@sh.itjust.works on 16 May 11:08 collapse

its not as effective as StirlingPDF, people using iLovePDF usually need it because they have to edit a PDF with customized footer/upper part of the page and just opening with LibreOffice Writer definitely will not maintain that. keeping the content and format are two different things, so if you are just opening a simple PDF without much formatting then yes maybe you dont need something like StirlingPDF and just directly opening with LibreOffice Writer will suffice

ggrey@mastomondo.net on 15 May 21:18 next collapse

@Maicon

Stirling PDF
https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

merthyr1831@lemmy.ml on 16 May 09:58 collapse

big up Stirling. it’s super easy to host and packed with features. one of my favourite apps

petri@sh.itjust.works on 16 May 11:20 collapse

theres PDFDing but its not as actively maintained as StirlingPDF

MaggiWuerze@feddit.org on 16 May 11:51 collapse

Last commit on PdfDing: 21. April 2025

Damn, thats some high standards

petri@sh.itjust.works on 16 May 12:13 collapse

i didnt say its not actively maintained as it would be subjective standard posed by me. i said “not as actively maintained as StirlingPDF” that implies a standard posed by StirlingPDF

MaggiWuerze@feddit.org on 16 May 12:47 collapse

Oh, sorry. My head read that as two sentences