sanusihassan

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   by sanusihassan 2y ago

   So I had this idea when I was applying for a job and they asked me to "sign this PDF." I thought, "Why not create my own tool for this?" I started simple: signatures, initials, checkboxes, the usual. I built it using Nex
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   by sanusihassan 2y ago

   yeah, this is a very popular problem; my aim was to create a simple user-friendly solution.
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   by sanusihassan 2y ago

   if you want to try the tool but you don't have a pdf file you can create a pdf file from a web page using this tool: https://www.pdfequips.com/web-to-pdf just paste a url like https://www.pdfequips.com and
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   I Created a Tool That Combines Multiple PDF Pages into One!(pdfequips.com)

   2 points by sanusihassan 2y ago|3 comments
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   by sanusihassan 2y ago

   try this tool: https://www.pdfequips.com/markdown-to-pdf edit the markdown text then download the pdf, you can perform the functions you want on that pdf file.
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   by sanusihassan 2y ago

   so, I've been working on pdfequips.com for about a year now, and I built this tool based on a request from someone I met on reddit. The idea of the project is to provide free pdf tools for merging PDFs, splitting, compressing, converti
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   SHOW HN: A tool to scale PDF files to a specific paper size, such as A2, B2(pdfequips.com)

   7 points by sanusihassan 2y ago|3 comments
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   by sanusihassan 2y ago

   I was working on this tool for a while now, the reason that let me create this tool is that there are no many tools out there that lets you to convert markdown files directly from a GitHub repo, allowing me to choose which files that I want
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   Show HN: Easy Way to include and customize only the Bootstrap CSS you need(github.com)

   2 points by sanusihassan 2y ago|0 comments
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    Show HN: The Easiest Way to Customize Bootstrap Based Styles Without Important(npmjs.com)

    1 points by sanusihassan 2y ago|0 comments
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    i'm open-sourcing the backend, but not 100% of the code.
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    puppeteer
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    indentation is not showing correctly, but you get the idea.
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    i appreciate your trust, and yeah belive me i'm deleting the files right after the processing, the way it works is that i'm saving the files uploaded as a tmp file then process it then delete them after the response. this is how t
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    Thanks! :)
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    I understand that you want to keep your work private and not expose your documents to the internet, but there might be a situation where the document isn't that important to you and any online solution would be sufficient, let's s
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    Thank you for your suggestion, I'm considering keeping the basic functions free and adding premium features, but still not changing any of the core features i.e the website is going to work as is.
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    pdfquips is fast, free, and offers tools that are not available on smallpdf like pdf-to-csv, pdf-to-pdf-a, translate-pdf, you can OfCourse use what you feel most comfortable with, but i guess you should give pdfequips a try :)
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    Thanks for bringing that up, I'll take care of that issue.
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    i used PyPDF2 to implement some tools, but not all of them.
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    The files are deleted immediately after processing I'm considering implementing WebAssembly (Wasm) to do most of the work on the client's device and enable offline use
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    thanks for the feedback!
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    the web app i.e the front end part is next.js and typescript mostly, the landing page is built using astro.js, and the back end is heavily python, flask and some javascript for web-to-pdf and markdown-to-pdf, the rest is mostly python
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    i used open source solutions to built it, like libreoffice, ghostscript, google's tesseract and a bunch of other tools, Google's Tesseract: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
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    I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software(pdfequips.com)

    231 points by sanusihassan 2y ago|114 comments
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    I decided to create pdfequips.com when a friend kept sending me PDF files for translation, realizing the widespread need for PDF solutions Now, it serves as a central hub for PDF management, offering conversion tools like PDF to Word and CS
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    I'm building a high-performance PDF design tool that feels just as fast as native software.
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    by sanusihassan 2y ago

    edit pdf tool is under development.
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    Show HN: I made a PDF managment tools website using only open source software(pdfequips.com)

    3 points by sanusihassan 2y ago|3 comments