It is possible to ingest PDFs via a consume folder. However consuming the files will cause them to be deleted. So I don’t think this will be very helpful in your case. There is however a bulk upload feature in the UI, which allows uploading may PDFs at once.

At the beginning the project was heavily inspired by Linkding. If you were to pull an early version of PdfDing you would find that the UI is very similar to Linkding. That was also the reason why I named the project PdfDing. By now the UI is totally different and only the name remains.

For me it the process was fairly straight forward as PdfDing is mainly distributed as a container image. I am not aware that it is available in any distributions except NixOs. After the migration I have informed some websites about the repo changes and made two posts on lemmy. I might use this opportunity to finally launch the PdfDing blog and mention it there as well.

They do not charge anything. However, your projects need to be open source in order to use Codeberg. Still you can self host the underlying Forgejo.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

No, sadly this is not possible.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

Thanks, fixed.

Edit: At least once the workflow has run

In short: Managing and consuming PDFs seamlessly on multiple devices. You can continue reading on your mobile device were you stopped reading on your laptop. I started implementing the app as there was no other app that satisfied my requirements:

• Complete control over my data.
• Easy to self-host via docker.
• Lightweight and minimal, should run on cheap hardware
• Continue reading where you left off on all devices
• Browser based
• Support single sign on via OIDC in order to leverage an existing identity provider
• PDFs should be shareable with an external audience with optional access control
• Open source
• Content should not be curated by an admin instead every user should be able to upload PDFs via the UI

Surprisingly, there was no solution available that could do this. In the following I’ll list the available alternatives and how they compare to my requirements.