Open-source PDF platform to edit, convert, OCR, sign, redact, and automate PDF workflows via a web UI and REST API.
91.3k stars8.3k forkslast commit Actively maintained
7 self-hosted PDFescape alternatives
Web-based PDF editor and form filler for viewing, annotating, and editing PDF files in the browser. Supports creating and filling PDF forms, adding text/images/shapes, basic password protection, and optional premium/desktop conversion and merge features.
Alternatives to PDFescape
#2
Self-hostable, privacy-first PDF toolkit that runs fully in the browser for editing, merging, converting, and processing PDFs without server-side uploads.
15.1k stars1.3k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
OmniTools is a self-hosted web app providing browser-based utilities for images, video, PDF, text, date/time, math, and data formats, with client-side processing.
10.1k stars713 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
#4
Self-hosted PDF manager to organize, view, annotate, sign, and share PDFs with multi-device reading progress, tagging, and optional access-controlled links.
1.9k stars120 forkslast commit Actively maintained
Self-hosted web app for signing PDFs (single or multi-signer), organizing pages (merge/rotate/extract), editing PDF metadata, and compressing files.
827 stars108 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
Self-hosted web app that removes background music and reduces noise from videos or audio (including URLs), using FFmpeg and DeepFilterNet-based enhancement.
719 stars52 forksMITlast commit Likely dormant
Next.js web app that reads EPUB, PDF, DOCX, MD and TXT using pluggable TTS providers, offering real-time read-along highlighting, word timestamps, and audiobook export.
501 stars70 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
What replacing PDFescape actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 6 of 7 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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