Merge-pdf.app – A free, privacy-first PDF Merging tool

2 pointsposted 6 hours ago
by ry8806

4 Comments

jcynix

4 hours ago

Nice exercise, and as a local solution obviously better than all this "give your data and trust me" stuff. But why must everything nowadays be a browser-based tool? I'm still happy with tools like pdfunite from https://poppler.freedesktop.org/

ry8806

an hour ago

totally understand. I think distribution on the Web is a lot easier than building desktop applications for Linux/Mac/Windows. Also, sometimes I need to merge pdfs when I'm on my Android device, which would be another target to build an application for. Web makes it easy for me across a huge variety of devices

ry8806

6 hours ago

I used to use the other free online services, which send my files to their servers in order to perform the processing.

I moved to using a docker container when I became concerned about privacy (I merge a lot of invoices and financial documents)

So I built my own, free, privacy centric version