BentoPDF
★ 16.3kGNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Core — Some Features PaidSingle Container — single container — minimal hosting footprintCompose · SourceNo external DB17+ active committers (12mo)
About
BentoPDF is a browser-based PDF toolkit aimed at users who want to manipulate documents without uploading them to a server. It focuses on privacy by running processing client-side and is designed to...
Community Ratings
Ease of Setup
5.0
Documentation
5.0
Resource Usage
1.0
Feature Completeness
5.0
Paywall Fairness
5.0
Maintenance
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Community
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Features
- merge PDFs
- split PDFs
- organize pages
- extract pages
- rotate pages
- view PDF
- add attachments
- extract attachments
- compare PDFs
- convert PDF formats
Details
- Last Updated
- Nov 9, 2026
- Created
- Oct 12, 2025
- Install Methods
- docker-composesource
- Requirements
- Node.jsDocker Compose or Podman Compose
- Default Port
- 8080web UI
- Runtime / Stack
- NodejsDocker
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: OptionalOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓Single Container — minimal hosting footprintsingle container
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Run BentoPDF with Docker Compose
Compose file from the BentoPDF project repository.
1 service
no resource limits declared
docker-compose.yml · @ dafb6f8 · scanned Nov 3, 2026
services:
bentopdf:
# GitHub Container Registry (Recommended)
# Self-Hosted build - ghcr.io/alam00000/bentopdf-simple:latest
# Commercial build - ghcr.io/alam00000/bentopdf:latest
# Docker Hub (Alternative)
# Self-Hosted build - bentopdfteam/bentopdf-simple:latest
# Commercial build - bentopdfteam/bentopdf:latest
image: ghcr.io/alam00000/bentopdf-simple:latest
container_name: bentopdf
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- '8080:8080'
# For IPv4-only environments
#environment:
# - DISABLE_IPV6=true
This file may be out of date. Check the BentoPDF documentation for current setup steps.
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