Hi r/selfhosted,

I am happy to present you PdfDing 0.1.0. You can find the repo here. I would be really happy if you would find the time to check it out.

PdfDing is a browser based PDF viewer that you can host yourself. It's designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.

PdfDing was created because I was searching for a selfhostable browser based PDF viewer. However, the existing solution were (at least for my use case) too heavy and feature rich. Thus, I focused on making PDfDing a "simple" with a focus on a single thing: viewing PDFs. This is also why you won't find any fancy AI or OCR in this project.

The name is a combination of PDF and ding. Ding is the German word for thing. Thus, PdfDing is a thing for your PDFs. The name and the design of PdfDing are inspired by linkding.

Feature Overview:

• Browser based PDF viewing
• Organize PDFs with tags
• Clean and responsive UI Remembers current position - continue where you stopped reading
• SSO support via OIDC
• Every user can upload its own PDFs. There is no admin curating the content.PdfDing is a browser based

At the end I want to mention codeberg.org, the platform where PdfDing's repository is hosted on. Codeberg is a platform like github, that is based on forgejo and operated by a registered non-profit association. I believe that the centralization of FOSS development on github as a single provider and solution is a big risk and I decided to host my code codeberg. Even though my ego would like github more :D. Maybe some of you want to register and try out codeberg. It's really great!