Hello!

Our issue has been resolved. Our new version 1.16.1 now uses bentopdfteam/bentopdf and is the official account, and bentopdf/bentopdf is deprecated and not maintained anymore. GHCR is now the recommended source, and we have also added Podman Quadlet support.

Since I don’t want to spam by making another post I’d be happy if you could please edit this post. Thank you (:

Thank you for sharing this, and apologies for not posting it here sooner. I will update it as soon as I receive any responses.

Thank you

Thank you!

A few clarifications first, because there are some incorrect assumptions here. BentoPDF is not AI written. BentoPDF was built manually over months of active development, with continuous refactoring, and iteration and community contributions. In my previous role, I worked on building AI systems to solve specific problems, and it doesn’t have any direct relation to Bento. Reducing the work of contributors to that is frankly unfair.

That said, it is a fast moving open source project, and not every feature is finished or polished to the same degree. You see, the bad part about building a software is that bugs are inevitable, even billion dollar companies have it, and I am but a solo dev. But the good part is that they can always be fixed.

So Bugs and rough edges are expected at this stage, and actionable bug reports are genuinely useful there. So, If you’ve run into specific breakages, opening issues with details, or just telling what’s wrong and what can be improved, is the most effective way to improve things. Broad label like AI written don’t really help move the project forward, especially given the amount of real work behind it.

But I do appreciate that you want a tool like this to exist and improve. Also, as regards to the Used By People Section, it was already fixed, along with a FOUC issue in simple mode, but it’s in our edge release, which I have mentioned in the very top of our release note. Thanks

Hello. BentoPDF does provide a GUI for operations like the ones you mentioned. However, the main goal of Bento was to bring capabilities that traditionally only exist in backend or native tools, such as Ghostscript, qpdf, LibreOffice, PyMuPDF, and similar stacks onto the web.

Beyond that, there are many workflows that don’t translate well to a CLI at all such as drag and drop merging and organization, visual page manipulation, form creation, cropping, annotations, and text editing. These are hard to do reliably or efficiently in a terminal, and not everyone uses or is comfortable working with CLI tools.

So all the processing happens in the browser and you get a local hostable, OS agnostic tool without needing native dependencies installed on the system. Hope that somewhat clears your doubt

Most of our users are on Linux and Windows (:

Its exactly same as the live website: bentopdf.com

Thank you. Hope it helps

I don’t think there’s any reason to switch if its fits your workflow/needs

Hello!

1. Yes, its a local app
2. Yes, it only concerns itself with PDF documents and conversions to and from PDF
3. I have never used paperless so I am not really the best person to answer this, but I believe paperless is a document management system, and is designed for document ingestion and organization?

Bento on the other hand, is a full PDF Toolkit, that allows you to edit, compress, annotate, sign, redact, convert pdf to other formats and convert to pdf from other formats, converting pdf for ai ingestion etc. Basically everything related to PDFs. Hope that helps.

yes please that’d be helpful

In next week we are going to be releasing Desktop apps, so you can download it and then set as default viewer

Yeah I couldn’t find a good place to put it lol

Currently there’s no such feature

There is a use full width toggle which you can find under preferences in setting button in the search bar. I will make this the defult in next release

wow you are an early user, thank you

Awesome!

Nope. But an API version will be released soon

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