document and PDF utility tools
Recent window: last 5.3 months (2026-04-28 → 2026-10-06), compared with the prior 5.3 months.
These products offer tools, browser apps, and developer libraries for creating, editing, viewing, and parsing documents and PDFs. They are primarily used by developers, researchers, and privacy-focused professionals looking for lightweight file manipulation workflows. What distinguishes this cluster is its heavy focus on local-only, in-browser execution, developer APIs, and granular PDF processing rather than full enterprise document management suites.
Members
| Name | Source | Upvotes ▼ | Launched |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bento | HN | 1033 | 2026-07-22 |
| TinyPDF | HN | 253 | 2025-12-18 |
| Extend UI | HN | 252 | 2026-06-10 |
| TabTasker | PH | 238 | 2026-05-31 |
| Cohere Parse 5 | PH | 212 | 2026-08-29 |
| Blume 2.0 | PH | 203 | 2026-10-04 |
| Pdfwithlove | HN | 177 | 2026-01-19 |
| Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) | HN | 155 | 2026-06-20 |
| TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM | HN | 118 | 2026-08-25 |
| Veil | HN | 100 | 2026-03-26 |
| Ocrbase | HN | 99 | 2026-01-20 |
| BreezePDF | HN | 97 | 2026-03-29 |
| Let's Seal | HN | 94 | 2026-07-27 |
| StayLokal | PH | 69 | 2026-10-01 |
| ReallyFree | PH | 67 | 2026-09-22 |
| Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling | HN | 60 | 2026-05-02 |
| Free, in-browser PDF editor | HN | 54 | 2026-03-28 |
| pdf-translate | GITHUB | 30 | 2026-09-15 |
| texglot | GITHUB | 29 | 2026-09-09 |
| dpapi-toolkit | GITHUB | 28 | 2026-09-23 |
| Filee | GITHUB | 28 | 2026-09-29 |
| pdf-newest-merge | GITHUB | 27 | 2026-10-04 |
| paperdelta | GITHUB | 24 | 2026-10-03 |
| Diffing Binary Files | HN | 19 | 2026-08-05 |
| PDFMergely | HN | 18 | 2026-06-30 |
| Rudoc | HN | 17 | 2026-07-25 |
| fizzdoc | GITHUB | 17 | 2026-09-27 |
| Secure private diffchecker with merge support | HN | 17 | 2025-11-25 |
| PaperOtter | GITHUB | 17 | 2026-09-12 |
| rubrol | GITHUB | 16 | 2026-09-16 |
| Inamate | HN | 15 | 2026-02-10 |
| Built a tool solve the nightmare of chunking tables in PDF vs. Markdown | HN | 15 | 2025-11-23 |
| I curated 130 US PDF forms and made them fillable in browser | HN | 13 | 2026-02-17 |
| presentation-tool | GITHUB | 12 | 2026-09-14 |
| paperlight | GITHUB | 12 | 2026-09-26 |
| PDF-TOOL-BOT | GITHUB | 11 | 2026-09-16 |
| vuescan-pro-updated | GITHUB | 11 | 2026-10-04 |
| Quick Presenter | PH | 10 | 2026-10-07 |
| sp-flash-tool-new-upl | GITHUB | 10 | 2026-10-02 |
| compressedit-pdf | GITHUB | 10 | 2026-10-04 |
| PDFly | HN | 10 | 2026-07-24 |
| CrabPDF | HN | 10 | 2026-04-26 |
| LibreOffice-rs | HN | 10 | 2026-05-19 |
| Unleaf | PH | 9 | 2026-09-29 |
| Hosting-File-Manager | GITHUB | 9 | 2026-09-11 |
| stationery | GITHUB | 9 | 2026-09-26 |
| spyde | GITHUB | 9 | 2026-09-14 |
| ScanPatra | PH | 8 | 2026-10-08 |
| PDF reader with interactive visualizations for research papers | HN | 8 | 2026-02-27 |
| PDFidelity | HN | 7 | 2026-09-12 |