Thanks a lot for your input. I agree that it can be a good idea to make it clearer that this is like a local / offline tool since that is the biggest difference compared to other tools. Will definitely try to make this clearer.

I am not sure what you mean by the "WASM locally manipulated notifier"?

Digital signature is a good idea for feature, I have added it to my feature todo list.

Thanks, will definitely have a look.

Just a heads up that all your comments here are showing up as dead (i.e. people won't see them unless they have "showdead" enabled in their settings) which means you're probably shadowbanned.

I've vouched for all your comments so far to revive them, but you might want to email hn@ycombinator.com about this.

wow, ok didn't know that. Thanks a lot for letting me know.

Thanks, that shouldn't be too hard to add. I have noted it down and will have a look at it.

Happy to hear :)

Thank you! Could be an idea. The PDF logic itself is in a C++ library that can be compiled against different platforms. A cli for instance shouldn't be too difficult to create. If you are thinking about a native UI, I am not sure it adds so much value when there is already the browser version.

Yes, it is a C++ library I have created and compiled to WebAssembly.

Did you write the c++ pdf library yourself?

It is a very small PDF library that I have written myself in C++. I am planning to release the source, but haven't decided on the license yet. It is very limited in features compared to the whole PDF specification but I am planning to keep adding to it.

Thank you. Sejda has a lot of features and seems to be a solid tool. The big difference between Sejda's online tool and pdfux is that with Sejda (and most online PDF tools), your file is transferred over the internet to Sejda's server where it is stored, processed and sent back to you. Then they promise to delete it. Personally I am not 100% comfortable using this kind of tools with files that I wouldn't want to share with anyone. (I also see that Sejda has a desktop version for offline use which seems to be their answer to the privacy concern.)

> Then they promise to delete it. Personally I am not 100% comfortable using this kind of tools with files that I wouldn't want to share with anyone.

This. Keep up the good work.

Happy to hear that you like it. As an example, I have started to look into if it is possible to add different features based on OCR. I still haven't gotten it to work but I think it should be possible. Some things are definitely harder to do in the browser vs on the server but still possible with some work.

It is my own library that I have created. I am planning to release the code with some open source license hopefully soon. The library is still very small and only include a tiny part of the whole PDF specification.