Every tool you need to work with PDFs

MicroBrief is a free, open-source, self-hostable PDF toolkit. Convert Word to PDF, merge PDFs, compress files — everything is processed locally on your machine.

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MicroBrief is fully open source. Read every line, self-host it, or help make it better.

MicroBrief/
$ tree -L 1
├── api/ # Express routes & handlers
├── views/ # HTML pages
├── public/ # CSS, JS, assets
├── python/ # Python converters
├── package.json
├── package-lock.json
├── README.md
├── LICENSE.md
└── CONTRIBUTING.md
$ npm run dev
✓ Server running at http://localhost:3000

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Node.js Express Python LibreOffice Ghostscript Tesseract OCR pdf-lib PyMuPDF
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