Privacy-First Pdf Converter
Details
- External ID
- 48008836
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Privacy-First Pdf Converter
- Website domain
- privapdf.net
- Launched
- May 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4168012924071082
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document processing and generation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- pdf converter with privacy
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The browser wrapper and UI are straightforward, but running offline client-side PDF rendering, docx conversion, and OCR requires complex compiled WebAssembly binaries.
What it would actually take: Requires compiling existing C/C++ or Rust libraries (such as Poppler, MuPDF, Tesseract for OCR, or pdfium) into WebAssembly via Emscripten or wasm-pack, paired with web workers to prevent UI thread blocking. The hard part is managing WebAssembly memory limits, optimizing conversion performance for multi-megabyte PDFs on client hardware, and accurately mapping complex PDF layout geometries back into structured DOCX XML. Specialized expertise in document layout heuristics, WebAssembly compilation, and PDF specifications is essential.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Digital signatures don't survive conversion, Formatting gets screwed up during conversion, PDF reconstruction/parsing issues, Needs OCR for image-based PDFs
Feature requests: Better parsing methods for reconstruction, Guidance on document preparation before upload, Support for digitally signed PDFs
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 398 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #167 of 399 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 185 days after the earliest competitor.
- Free Online Bates Numbering Tool for PDFs · hn · 2026-09-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Privacy focused client side password generator · hn · 2026-08-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Lumli · hn · 2026-06-24 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- PDFPip · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Emboss · hn · 2026-07-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- PrivacyScanPDF · ph · 2026-09-15 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Rubrol · hn · 2026-09-19 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- KrocPDF · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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