Nice!
For someone unfamiliar, can you explain why someone would host PDFs? Are there any organisations that already do this?
Also, what would be the difference between this and pdf.js (e.g. Firefox viewer) when it comes to the viewer?
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
120 points (99.2% liked)
Selfhosted
52405 readers
1587 users here now
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
Rules:
-
Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
-
No spam posting.
-
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
-
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
-
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
-
No trolling.
Resources:
- selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
- awesome-selfhosted software
- awesome-sysadmin resources
- Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting
Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.
Questions? DM the mods!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
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.
Wait is this like what onbase does?
That goes straight into my bookmarks! I’ll look into this later but it looks very nice and promising.
Nicee!! Happy for ya, and for everyone else using your solution
Ooh, does anyone know of something like this which can show 3 pages at once?
Thinking of replacing the music app on an old mac mini and using a hdmi stick/pi to display it instead.