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Almost every 'online tool' you can find is just a very inconvenient frontend to a command line tool you can find and use by yourself. These file converters can
by LordShredda 3y ago
Almost every 'online tool' you can find is just a very inconvenient frontend to a command line tool you can find and use by yourself. These file converters can all be replaced by ffmpeg or magick. Every single pdf tool online is a bloated proxy to libpoppler
- jellyblade 3y agoThe only upsides I see are for infrequent or one-off conversions where you might not want to go through the hassle of finding/downloading/learning the tool, and for unsupported platforms like mobile phones. I suppose it brings awareness to the tools too if credited properly. Ezgif is one converter I've used a few times, and one of their info pages lists all of the CLI tools they use on the backend. That was quite handy to learn that gifsicle existed, something I was not aware of before.