BentoPDF

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BentoPDF is a powerful, privacy-first, client-side PDF toolkit that is self-hostable and allows you to manipulate, edit, merge, and process PDF files directly in your browser. No server-side processing is required, ensuring your files remain secure and private.

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Table of Contents

• Join Us on Discord
• Documentation
• Licensing
• Stargazers over time
• Why BentoPDF?
• Features / Tools Supported
• Organize & Manage PDFs
• Edit & Modify PDFs
• Convert to PDF
• Convert from PDF
• Secure & Optimize PDFs
• Other Products
• Translations
• Getting Started
• Prerequisites
• Quick Start
• Static Hosting
• Self-Hosting Locally
• Docker Compose / Podman Compose
• Podman Quadlet
• Self-Hosted Build (Simple Mode)
• Commercial Build
• Custom Branding
• Disabling Specific Tools
• Disabling the GitHub Star Counter
• WASM Configuration
• Air-Gapped / Offline Deployment
• Security Features
• Digital Signature CORS Proxy
• Version Management
• Development Setup
• Tech Stack & Background
• Roadmap
• Contributing
• Special Thanks

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📢 Join Us on Discord

Have questions, feature requests, or want to chat with the community? Join our Discord server!

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📚 Documentation

Visit our Documentation for:

• Getting Started guide
• Tools Reference (50+ tools)
• Self-Hosting guides (Docker, Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, AWS, Hostinger, Nginx, Apache)
• Contributing guide
• Commercial License details

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📜 Licensing

BentoPDF is dual-licensed to fit your needs:

License	Best For	Price
AGPL-3.0	Open-source projects with public source code	Free
Commercial	Proprietary / closed-source applications	$79 (lifetime)

One-time purchase · Unlimited devices & users · Lifetime updates · No AGPL obligations

Building on BentoPDF? Hyper Compress is included. The commercial license covers Hyper Compress as a bundled component when you use it through BentoPDF's own tools. Using the engine on its own or in other software needs a separate Hyper Compress license from $99/year, and Kura is licensed separately from $99/year. See Bundled Components.

📖 For more details, see our Licensing Page

AGPL Components (Pre-configured via CDN)

BentoPDF does not bundle AGPL-licensed processing libraries in its source code, but pre-configures CDN URLs so all features work out of the box with zero setup:

Component	License	Features Enabled
PyMuPDF	AGPL-3.0	PDF to Text/Markdown/SVG/DOCX, Extract Images/Tables, EPUB/MOBI/XPS conversion, Compression, Deskew
Ghostscript	AGPL-3.0	PDF/A Conversion, Font to Outline
CoherentPDF (CPDF)	AGPL-3.0	Merge, Split by Bookmarks, Table of Contents, PDF to/from JSON, Attachments

[!TIP] Zero-config by default. WASM modules are loaded at runtime from jsDelivr CDN. No manual configuration is needed. For custom deployments (air-gapped, self-hosted), see WASM Configuration below.

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⭐ Stargazers over time

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✨ Why BentoPDF?

• Privacy First: All processing happens in your browser. Your files are never uploaded to a server, guaranteeing 100% privacy.
• No Limits: Manipulate as many files as you want, as o