Self-hosted projects tagged “PDF”

Open-source PDF platform to edit, convert, OCR, sign, redact, and automate PDF workflows via a web UI and REST API.

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Adobe Acrobat+19

reveal.js is an open source HTML presentation framework for building interactive slide decks with HTML, Markdown, and JavaScript, including speaker notes and PDF export.

MITActively maintained

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Adobe XD

Logseq is a privacy-first, open-source knowledge management app for networked notes, tasks, and collaboration using local Markdown or Org-mode graphs.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Roam Research+19

Paperless-ngx is an open-source document management system that ingests scans and files, runs OCR, and turns them into a searchable, taggable document archive.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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DocuWare+6

Open-source resume builder for creating, customizing, exporting and publishing resumes with templates, PDF export, public sharing and optional OpenAI assistance.

MITActively maintained

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Resume.io+5

Self-hosted tool to collect and preserve webpages, media, and bookmarks in durable formats (HTML, PDF, WARC, MP4) with a CLI, web UI, and search.

MITActively maintained

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Internet Archive Wayback Machine+3

Self-hostable DocuSign alternative to create fillable forms and collect legally binding eSignatures with API and webhooks.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Docusign+13

Self-hostable, privacy-first PDF toolkit that runs fully in the browser for editing, merging, converting, and processing PDFs without server-side uploads.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Adobe Acrobat+19

Gotenberg is a containerized HTTP API that converts HTML, Markdown, and Office documents to PDF using engines like Chromium and LibreOffice, with options to merge and automate outputs.

MITActively maintained

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PDFShift+9

Open-source self-hosted reading server providing EPUB/PDF/comics readers, OPDS feeds, rich metadata, user/role management, full-text search and a REST API.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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BookFusion+5

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.

MITActively maintained

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iLovePDF+7

Open-source DocSend alternative for secure document sharing and data rooms, with custom domains, access controls, and viewing analytics.

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DocSend+7

Modern open-source time tracking for freelancers and teams, with projects, tasks, clients, rates, reporting, and PDF invoicing in one place.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Kimai Cloud+19

OpenSign is a free, open-source DocuSign alternative for signing and sending PDFs, managing templates, inviting multiple signers, and generating audit trails and completion certificates.

Self-hostable online office suite for viewing and collaboratively editing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, and forms with strong OOXML compatibility.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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ONLYOFFICE Docs Cloud+13

Open-source, cross-platform Qt e-reader and library manager with cloud sync, highlighting, an in-app bookstore, AI-assisted lookups, and support for common formats.

GPL-3.0Likely dormant

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Adobe Digital Editions+4

Self-hosted open source invoicing software to manage quotes, invoices, clients, and payment tracking, with customizable templates and multilingual UI.

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Invoice Ninja+14

Docspell is a self-hosted document management system that imports scanned files and email attachments, runs OCR, and helps organize documents with tags, metadata, and search.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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DocuWare+5

Self-hosted PDF manager to organize, view, annotate, sign, and share PDFs with multi-device reading progress, tagging, and optional access-controlled links.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Adobe Acrobat+14

Open-source invoicing app built with Laravel & Vue. Provides invoices, estimates, expense tracking, REST API, customizable PDF templates and self-hosting documentation.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Invoice Ninja+9

Open source web-based time tracker with an interactive timeline, tag-based workflow, targets, and CSV/PDF reporting for individuals and freelancers.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Toggl Track+19

Write resumes as YAML, validate with a schema, and generate professional outputs like pixel-perfect PDFs plus Markdown and HTML via a developer-friendly CLI.

MITActively maintained

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Resume.io+5

A minimalist, fast in-browser text editor with live Markdown preview, optional LaTeX/Math rendering, and export/print to PDF—runs fully offline with no server.

Likely dormant

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Typora+4

Self-hosted web UI for file conversion, OCR for PDFs/images, and local Whisper-based audio transcription, wrapping common CLI tools with background jobs and history.

MITSlowing down

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CloudConvert+15

Gossa is a lightweight Go web server for browsing, uploading, and streaming files from a directory with a simple, fast UI and optional PWA support.

MITSlowing down

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FileBrowser+10

Self-hosted Markdown note-taking web app with multi-user vaults, real-time collaboration, fast search, templates, backlinks/tags, PDF export, and PWA support.

MITActively maintained

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Notion+19

Open-source platform for guided web interviews that collect user input, run logic, and generate documents (PDF, DOCX, RTF) or integrate with external services via APIs.

MITActively maintained

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Formstack+19

Rachoon is a modern self-hosted invoicing app for freelancers and small businesses, with client management, payment tracking, PDF export, and customizable templates.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Invoice Ninja+13

Self-hosted web app for signing PDFs (single or multi-signer), organizing pages (merge/rotate/extract), editing PDF metadata, and compressing files.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Docusign+19

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.

MITActively maintained

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Speechify+7