PdfDing - Over 500 stars on Github, Helm Chart, new features, new theme and design improvements

[pirat@lemmy.world]

Why not paperless? I've thought of trying out paperless-ngx but would like to hear about your experiences with it or other thoughts about it.

[prenatal_confusion@feddit.org]

Sorry typo. Find

[prenatal_confusion@feddit.org]

It's hungry in resources. But most of all it's complex. It's more suited for medium sized company's or at least it feels like that.

[maxprime@lemmy.ml]

Paperless ngx has been a game changer for me. I only wish I had a better scanner, or more specifically, a sheet feed scanner which would make scanning stacks of papers way easier.

I’d say give it a shot. All your PDFs are stored nicely in one directory (PDFs are sorted in app by tags) so it’s easy to migrate if you need.

[naeap@sopuli.xyz]

Tried their demo on mobile.
Is the highlighter for everyone just working, when you start in a non-text area?
If I try to mark just one word in the text, it does nothing. If I start in a non-text area, I can move over the text afterwards.

But highlighting single words or text parts is pretty much the use case for a highlighter.

Maybe it's just my Firefox on android...

[non_burglar@lemmy.world]

Depends on your workflow.

• Paperless itself is great, but it cannot ingest half my PDF bills and invoices due to limitations on the conversion tools dependency.
• support for interpreting US/EU conventions for date and time takes careful workflow rules, automation can have weird results
• multi user support is a bit of a mess

In short, it's great for single user, single workflow cases, but not so much for just ingesting all kinds of docs and having truly helpful doc processing.

[mrmn@lemmy.world]

I just checked, I usually don't use the app on a mobile device. If you want to highlight text on mobile:

• open the highlight menu
• select the text as if you were to copy it (long press, etc)
• then click on a color
• the text should now be highlighted

[mrmn@lemmy.world]

Currently, there is no ocr. I also don't know if I'll add at some point in the future. It kinda clashes with the philosophy of keeping it simple and minimal as it is quite resource hungry.

[prenatal_confusion@feddit.org]

Ah didnt even realize you are the dev. Thanks for the work you put Into this!

I get that ocr clashes but for me it is mostly scanned documents that are not really useable without ocr. I imagine a lot of people face the same situation. Either way I understand your position on this.

Either way, great project!

[scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I haven't used PDFDing before but honestly that description sounds a bit unituitive to me. I would expect to select the color first and then markt the text but maybe this is just because I haven't seen the interface

[mrmn@lemmy.world]

There is not much I can do as this functionality is provided by mozilla's pdf.js library (this also powers the pdf reader of firefox).