PdfDing

PdfDing is a self-hosted web application for managing a personal library of PDF documents. It focuses on quick capturing/importing (including via a browser extension), organizing with metadata and tags, and finding documents later via search.

Key Features

• Upload and store PDFs in a web-based library
• Browser extension workflow to send/store PDFs to your instance
• Tagging and document metadata for organization
• Full-text search across stored PDFs (OCR is not the main focus)
• In-browser PDF viewing/reading
• User authentication and multi-user support (instance-dependent)

Use Cases

• Maintain a personal “paperless” archive (manuals, receipts, articles)
• Build a searchable research library of downloaded papers
• Collect and organize PDFs captured from the web via a browser extension

Limitations and Considerations

• Feature set is focused on PDF library management (not a full DMS/workflow suite)

PdfDing is a good fit when you primarily need a lightweight, web-based way to capture and manage PDFs, with quick import flows and strong search/tagging to retrieve documents later.