Hi folks!
I’m the creator of BentoPDF. It is an open source PDF toolkit that runs entirely in your browser. Your documents stay private, by design.
BentoPDF started as a small side project, but over time it has grown into something much bigger. With our latest major update, BentoPDF now includes 100+ tools, all running fully client-side.
You can do the basics like merge PDFs(while preserving bookmarks), split documents, extract or delete pages, reorder files, rotate pages, and compress PDFs. Thee are also some advanced tools.
You can edit and annotate PDFs directly in the browser: highlight text, add comments, draw shapes, insert images, fill(including XFA) and create forms, manage bookmarks, generate tables of contents, redact, add headers, footers, watermarks, and page numbers.
BentoPDF also supports an extensive range of file conversions. You can convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Pages, CSV, RTF, EPUB, MOBI, comic book formats, and many more into PDFs, and also convert PDFs back into Word, Excel, images, Markdown, CSV, JSON, and plain text.
For images, BentoPDF supports a massive variety of formats, including HEIC, WebP, SVG, PSD, JP2, and and aalso other formats such as EPUB, CBR/CBZ. You can convert images to PDFs, extract images from PDFs in their original format, or rasterize PDFs with full DPI control.
There are also organization and optimization tools: OCR, PDF/A conversion, booklet creation, N-up layouts, page division, attachment management, layer (OCG) editing, metadata inspection and editing, repair tools, and advanced compression algorithms that rival commercial solutions.
The latest update also includes AI ready extraction tools to export PDFs to structured JSON, extract tables as CSV/Markdown/JSON, and prepare PDFs for RAG and LLM workflows.
All of this works entirely in the browser, without accounts, uploads, or tracking.
This is my first post here and I hope you like it. Any feedback or feature requests are appreciated. Thank you.
Github Link: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf
Great project. I like the 1-star reviews complaining about the lack of advertising and tracking.
haha thanks
The day I can digitally sign PDFs from this, it’d be the PDF editor. You’re doing the Lord’s work, thank you very much for this!
It’s actually coming up in next release (: You will be able to sign with PKCS12, PFX and PEM certificates. And also validate them
Oh, wow, thank you very much for this!!
You’re doing the lords work my dude. There are not enough ways to thank you for your work
(:
Thank you so much for this. We just started using it at our school. We were using StirlingPDF, but they went open core 🫤. Personally, I like that there is no auth, it keeps it simple.
That’s great to know. Thank you!
What I would love to see is batch processing of mapped form fields from a PDF template, e.g. to fill out training certificate template pdfs with name, date, company, and instructor from a given CSV file, add a signature and print it. Is something like that possible? 🙂
We currently use nodered, python and reportlab and I‘m looking to somewht simplify the process :)
That’s interesting. I will see what I can do
Awesome, thanks :)
From just a quick look so far, it seems really versatile. Thanks for the work you’ve put into this!
Thanks! Hope you like it
Looks great
Thank you!
How does this compare tp stirling pdf?
Will try it, looks handy. Thanks!
Thanks! Let me know how it goes
It’s great. I added it to my self hosting stack, will be relying on it from now on. I can’t wait to need some pdf tweaking in the future!
People like you keep my world spinning. Kudos!
Thank you so much for your amazing work! I had to sign something a few weeks ago on a new PC and Bento is so easy
Thank you!
a small question, if I may.
When I worked in technical support for a popular phone brand a lifetime ago, I had to make clickable “navigatable” pdfs. Create empty objects around apps and settings so that technicians could help clients without having access to their phone or device with current OS update. I would update mine and take screen shots then convert those with clickable objects to switch to the correct page to act as a sudo phone/tablet. Is this something that BentoPDF can do?
Currently there’s no such feature
I don’t suppose you’re able to sign PDFs with something like a CAC card right? Is that still wholly in the realm of acrobat?
Literally the only thing I need another software to do so I can finally uninstall the last Adobe product from my VM. I’m running Linux so getting this functionality in Linux would be ideal. But since no one else has done it, I assume Adobe has some kind of stranglehold on that process?
sorry but this is the first time I am hearing of a CAC card. Can you give me more details. I can check it out then
No problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card
Essentially it’s a physical token containing a certificate. I can then put that card into a CAC card reader and authenticate with it and a PIN that I setup on my card.
I can then also sign PDF signature blocks with the cert on the card. I have only found this ability in Adobe Acrobat. The signature block in Adobe is different from just their regular sign location for digital ink. I’ve never made a PDF with one of those blocks, I’ve only just signed them so I’m not sure what exactly that kind of signing block is called.
So bottom line, it’s a physical card with a certificate loaded on it. Adobe can read that cert and use it to sign signature blocks inside a PDF.
I have it on my laptop. Thank you for your efforts.
glad it helped!
I could really use this, so I will definitely set this up. I saw there is an issue open for adding hyperlinks. Any word on how that is progressing (or not)?
Is there a function to create a booklet or brochure?
This was a very useful feature to print a number of pages and have them in an easy format to read.
However, at least my Ubuntu print driver doesn’t have this feature, and I would need an extra tool to achive this goal.
Yes there is a booklet feature along with NUP tool
