Thank you! (:

Hello!

Our issue has been resolved. Our new version 1.16.1 now uses bentopdfteam/bentopdf and is the official account, and bentopdf/bentopdf is deprecated and not maintained anymore. GHCR is now the recommended source, and we have also added Podman Quadlet support.

Since I don’t want to spam by making another post I’d be happy if you could please edit this post. Thank you (:

Thank you for sharing this, and apologies for not posting it here sooner. I will update it as soon as I receive any responses.

Hello. BentoPDF does provide a GUI for operations like the ones you mentioned. However, the main goal of Bento was to bring capabilities that traditionally only exist in backend or native tools, such as Ghostscript, qpdf, LibreOffice, PyMuPDF, and similar stacks onto the web.

Beyond that, there are many workflows that don’t translate well to a CLI at all such as drag and drop merging and organization, visual page manipulation, form creation, cropping, annotations, and text editing. These are hard to do reliably or efficiently in a terminal, and not everyone uses or is comfortable working with CLI tools.

So all the processing happens in the browser and you get a local hostable, OS agnostic tool without needing native dependencies installed on the system. Hope that somewhat clears your doubt

Hello!

1. Yes, its a local app
2. Yes, it only concerns itself with PDF documents and conversions to and from PDF
3. I have never used paperless so I am not really the best person to answer this, but I believe paperless is a document management system, and is designed for document ingestion and organization?

Bento on the other hand, is a full PDF Toolkit, that allows you to edit, compress, annotate, sign, redact, convert pdf to other formats and convert to pdf from other formats, converting pdf for ai ingestion etc. Basically everything related to PDFs. Hope that helps.

Yes! It performs true redaction. You can find it in the editor tool