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).

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.

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

The project is using mozilla’s pdf.js library for displaying pdfs (this is also used for firefox’s build in pdf reader). As far as I am aware it should be able to work with (allmost) all pdf files.

t is all about reading and organizing your PDFs. I started this project because I wanted a web app where I can read longer PDFs seamlessly on my desktop and mobile devices.

Yes, you do. I do not know however you complex the management part needs to be for you. You could give it a try and if you are missing something just create an issue on github and I see what I can do :)

It is not planned right now as I never developed an android app before. But who knows, I am also not a frontend dev, yet here we are :D

I am planning on developing a Rest API, hopefully I can do this in such a way that someone from community is able to create a mobile application.

No this is not possible. However I think, that you can adjust the page size/scale with Stirling PDF.

It depends on you use case. Stirling PDF focuses on performing various operations like splitting, cropping and rotating on your PDFs. PdfDing has a different focus, it is all about reading and organizing your PDFs. I started this project because I wanted a web app where I can read longer PDFs seamlessly on my desktop and mobile devices.

The newly added editing features were implemented with the aim of improving the reading experience. If I find something important I can add an annotation or highlight something. When studying you can add free hand notes to your files.

I hope that helps in differentiating the two applications.

PdfDing has a totally different use case than stirling-pdf. stirling-pdf is for manupilating PDF files, in contrast the PdfDing is for viewing and managing PdfFiles.

There are also self-hostable ebook readers, but they (at least the ones I have tried) don’t allow individual users to upload their own files. Usually there is an admin curating the content. Also sharing content with an external audience is difficult.