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Is this open source? I think the world could use a good free and open 'utility' app for PDFs. Its hard to do digital business these days without even moderate features needed in PDF editing without paying Adobe or non-free online services - JUST TO EDIT A DOCUMENT.


It's not open source at the moment, but I would consider it. Just have to think through it as once you go open-source it doesn't go over too well to go back. So, if I want to open source it, I want to be sure.

I'm sure some might like to modify it, though I think probably most people aren't developers and wouldn't want to.

There's no VCs or anything behind this, just me, and my costs are just a VPS to render the page, and all processing happens on the local device. So I have no reason to change any currently free features to ever not be free.


> It's not open source at the moment, but I would consider it. Just have to think through it as once you go open-source it doesn't go over too well to go back. So, if I want to open source it, I want to be sure.

It's hard to trust your site's promise of "No uploads, 100% privacy guaranteed" when people can't audit the code.


Yes you can inspect it, just inspect source. Since everything runs in the browser, it's all inspectable.


Not open source but free and works in Windows: PDFGear.




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