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Today I’m diving into two powerful self-hosted PDF managers that lets...

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Today, I'm diving into two powerful self-hosted PDF managers that lets you edit PDFs on any device, anywhere. Sterling PDF, currently the number one PDF application on GitHub. This is a fully open source PDF editing platform that you can run basically anywhere, as a desktop app, directly in your browser, or totally self-hosted on your own infrastructure. Sterling PDF gives you more than 50 PDF tools, including editing, merging, splitting, compressing. Pretty much everything you'd expect from a commercial PDF suite. One of the coolest parts is automation. Sterling PDF lets you build no-code workflows, which means you can process PDFs at scale while keeping everything private. PDFding, a lightweight PDF manager that focuses on simplicity and a smooth reading experience on any device. PDFding lets you host your own PDF library and access everything through the browser. When it comes to editing, PDFding supports annotations, highlighting, signatures, and drawings, and even separates your highlights and comments into dedicated management views. There's also markdown notes, custom themes, dark mode, and a super intuitive layout that just feels smooth.

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