BentoPDF can now edit existing PDF text along with two new engines.

> Hello folks! > > I would like to share an update about BentoPDF. It’s an open source privacy first PDF toolkit that runs in your browser. > > 1. You can now actually edit text inside PDFs > > BentoPDF now allows you to click existing text, edit it, and have the text reflow while preserving the original fonts and styling. > > It also includes: > > - Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, font family/size, colours, outlines, character spacing and line spacing > - Left, centre, right and justified alignment > - Bulleted and numbered lists with indentation > - RTL and LTR text alignment > - Find and replace across the document > - Edit images by rotating, flipping, duplicating, resizing or deleting them > - Object alignment, distribution, rotation, flipping, duplication > > Please note this is a work in progress. You may encounter bugs, which you can report and I will look into. > > 2. Hyper Compress > > Hyper is an open source PDF compression engine built to solve specific problems. > > - Compression sometimes returns a file larger than the original. Hyper’s result is always binary: it either produces a smaller PDF or returns the original. This helps create predictable workflows. > - Hyper includes a true lossless mode. It preserves searchable text, document structure and PDF conformance, rather than rebuilding the document from scratch like Ghostscript. > - It runs everywhere: CLI, Node SDK, C API, self hosted service, and WebAssembly build. > > Repository and benchmarks: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf-hyper-compress [https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf-hyper-compress] > > I also compared it to Adobe’s compression API, but only managed around 100 PDFs where results were within 5%. Testing on a bigger corpus got expensive. > > 3. Kura > > Kura is a PDF standards, conversion and preflight engine. > > It supports: > > - All 11 PDF/A conformance levels: PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2a, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-2u, PDF/A-3a, PDF/A-3b, PDF/A-3u, PDF/A-4, PDF/A-4e and PDF/A-4f > - Accessibility: PDF/UA-1 and PDF/UA-2 > - Print production: PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-4p, PDF/X-5g, PDF/X-5n and PDF/X-5pg > - Engineering and variable data printing: PDF/E-1 and PDF/VT > - E-invoices: Factur-X, ZUGFeRD, XRechnung and Order-X > - 396 bundled print-preflight profiles > > It has been tested against several standards suites, including the veraPDF corpus, Isartor, BFO, Ghent Output Suite 5.0, the PDF/UA Reference Suite and Cal Poly’s PDF/VT suite. > > Across 30,677 PDF conversions it had zero crashes and zero timeouts, with a 0.05 second median conversion time. > > Like Hyper, it ships as a CLI, C library, npm package, Docker image and WebAssembly build. > > Repository and benchmarks: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf-kura [https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf-kura] > > The release also contains other improvements and bug fixes: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/releases/tag/v2.8.8 [https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/releases/tag/v2.8.8] > > Thank you and have a great weekend!