I have bunch of textbooks, and a lot of lecture notes and notes from colleagues, all in PDF format. What is a good way to classify, manage, store, and read these PDF files? I am trying calibre-web, but it seems difficult to find applications to connect to it.
I believe this new project should hit your need quite well!
Papra is quite new in the selfhosted sphere but a welcome addition. Yet to test it myself but it sounds and looks very promising > https://github.com/papra-hq/papra
Maybe have a look at pdfding. It isn’t to bloated and pretty simple, but has all the features that are essential for me. I like it.
Contrary to the others here,while I love Paperless,using it for textbooks and notes only worked “somewhat” for me - it becomes quite clunky after a while.
Personally I would rather go with Calibre if I were you if you have more textbooks than notes. Even for notes, they can be attached as well and better organised than Paperless.
(And don’t get me wrong paperless is awesome and I use it heavily)
Not sure what your preferred platform is but I’ve had great success connecting to my Calibre-web site with Yomu on iOS.
What’s wrong with just folders and file names?
The same reason why immich fucking rocks.
Sreach pictures by “ocean” or “moon” and get shown related pictures.
If those doc managemnt solutions can also do OCR it’s a doublw win.
Hmmm. Maybe I should try that then. Never actually understood why people like these managers as I was always satisfied with the directory tree for organization.
Well maybe besides music. There beets fucking rocks. But in the end I use it also only to sort music into a directory structure.
Benefit of data managers: Tags for easier searching and grouping, grouping that is folder agnostic, easily choosing a thumbnail, and in text focused ones you can usually search the content of the files from one location and easily look through the results for the correct one, etc.
All great recommendations here. But I’ve heard good things about PdfDing. I haven’t used it myself but have followed development since the developer is quite active.
Not self hosted necessarily, but TagStudio is an interesting project worth keeping an eye on https://docs.tagstud.io/
Not quite the correct application but linkwarden would work. Stores all your links but also backs everything up via html, plain text, and pdf. You can categorize content and tag content. Then there are filter and search tools.
You can just give it PDFs and it will import them over as well. Only saves them as a pdf but still would work.
I’m guessing this is not the best approach but wanted to give you options.
Not self-hosted so I doesn’t really answer your question… However, if you’re still a student consider the switch to Zotero.
Things you can self-host though, to make your books available everywhere, is some webdav sever to link your books directly to zotero and access them on every device.
If you’re serious about book reading and study, nothing beats Zotero !
You can also actually not self-hosting the database but have your documents hosted on some WebDAV server you control.
StirlingPDF ? Website : https://www.stirlingpdf.com/ GitHub : https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
StirlingPDF is great, but more of a PDF editor.
OP wants something to store and manage his PDF’s.
You’re right I was certain it was doing both editing and managment but my memory played me
I use Ubooquity.
