Thank you for sharing this, and apologies for not posting it here sooner. I will update it as soon as I receive any responses.

Thank you

A few clarifications first, because there are some incorrect assumptions here. BentoPDF is not AI written. BentoPDF was built manually over months of active development, with continuous refactoring, and iteration and community contributions. In my previous role, I worked on building AI systems to solve specific problems, and it doesn’t have any direct relation to Bento. Reducing the work of contributors to that is frankly unfair.

That said, it is a fast moving open source project, and not every feature is finished or polished to the same degree. You see, the bad part about building a software is that bugs are inevitable, even billion dollar companies have it, and I am but a solo dev. But the good part is that they can always be fixed.

So Bugs and rough edges are expected at this stage, and actionable bug reports are genuinely useful there. So, If you’ve run into specific breakages, opening issues with details, or just telling what’s wrong and what can be improved, is the most effective way to improve things. Broad label like AI written don’t really help move the project forward, especially given the amount of real work behind it.

But I do appreciate that you want a tool like this to exist and improve. Also, as regards to the Used By People Section, it was already fixed, along with a FOUC issue in simple mode, but it’s in our edge release, which I have mentioned in the very top of our release note. Thanks

Thank you. Hope you like it (:

I would have been happy if you provided anything constructive. Calling it begging for reviews is certainly surprising for someone who claims the communication put them off. It’s interesting how much emphasis you place on tone and emojis for someone who says they’re less likely to engage because of them. Moreover I asked for feedback, not a character assessment. Your personal preference doesn’t change anything here, there’s nothing actionable in it, and I’m comfortable with how I communicate with the community

Most of our users are on Linux and Windows (:

My release notes are intentionally personal and opinionated. As the maintainer, I like sharing milestones, thoughts, and context with the community as part of showing how far the project has grown. I understand that style won’t appeal to everyone, but it’s a choice I’m comfortable with and I plan to keep it that way

Its exactly same as the live website: bentopdf.com

Thank you. Hope it helps

I don’t think there’s any reason to switch if its fits your workflow/needs

Yes!

Currently there’s no such feature

That’s interesting. I will see what I can do

(:

Thank you!

It’s actually coming up in next release (: You will be able to sign with PKCS12, PFX and PEM certificates. And also validate them

Yes, as arthor mentioned it is supposed to be a self hosted tool. But since it’s client side and just a bunch of static files in the end, I will soon be porting it for all major platforms as an installable using Tauri

lol thank you

It can merge any type of pages. Also, if there is bookmarks in your PDFs, then it also preserves it. There’s also an alternate merge feature in case you want (:

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