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feat: add browser implementations for advanced tools

Open ConnorYoh opened this issue 2 months ago • 3 comments

14 tools now support browser-based processing (no server upload required):

Simple PDF Operations (no limitations)

  1. Adjust Contrast - Image manipulation only
  2. Remove Annotations - Removes form fields and annotations
  3. Rotate - Rotate pages by 90/180/270 degrees
  4. Remove Pages - Delete specific pages
  5. Reorganize Pages - Reorder pages
  6. Adjust Page Scale - Resize pages
  7. Crop - Crop page dimensions
  8. Single Large Page - Merge all pages vertically
  9. Page Layout - Arrange pages in grid layouts

Tools with Minor Limitations

  1. Flatten - Flattens forms/annotations (may not preserve all complex PDF features)
  2. Change Metadata - Update PDF metadata (basic metadata only)
  3. Merge - Combine PDFs (simple merge, no TOC generation or signature handling in browser)

Tools with Functional Limitations

  1. Split - Split PDFs by:
  • ✅ Specific pages (BY_PAGES)
  • ✅ File size (BY_SIZE)
  • ✅ Pages per file (BY_PAGE_COUNT)
  • ✅ Number of files (BY_DOC_COUNT)
  • ❌ Chapters/bookmarks (backend only)
  • ❌ Page dividers (backend only)
  • ❌ Sections (backend only)
  1. Add Page Numbers - Add page numbers (basic text rendering, limited font support compared to backend)

Overlay Tools (complex rendering)

  1. Add Stamp - Text or image stamps (font rendering limitations vs backend)
  2. Add Watermark - Text or image watermarks (font rendering limitations vs backend)

Key Limitation: Browser implementations use pdf-lib which has more limited font/rendering capabilities compared to backend PDFBox. Complex PDFs with advanced features may not process perfectly in browser mode.

ConnorYoh avatar Oct 24 '25 13:10 ConnorYoh

🚀 Translation Verification Summary

🔄 Reference Branch: pr-branch-messages_en_GB.properties

📃 File Check: messages_en_GB.properties

  1. Test Status: ✅ Passed
  2. Test Status: ✅ Passed
  3. Test Status: ✅ Passed

✅ Overall Check Status: Success

Thanks @ConnorYoh for your help in keeping the translations up to date.

stirlingbot[bot] avatar Oct 24 '25 13:10 stirlingbot[bot]

✅ Frontend License Check Passed

All frontend licenses have been validated and no compatibility warnings were detected.

The frontend license report has been updated successfully.

stirlingbot[bot] avatar Oct 25 '25 13:10 stirlingbot[bot]

🚀 V2 Auto-Deployment Complete!

Your V2 PR with the new frontend/backend split architecture has been deployed!

🔗 Direct Test URL (non-SSL) http://185.252.234.121:4732

🔐 Secure HTTPS URL: https://4732.ssl.stirlingpdf.cloud

This deployment will be automatically cleaned up when the PR is closed.

🔄 Auto-deployed because PR title or branch name contains V2/version2/React keywords.

stirlingbot[bot] avatar Oct 31 '25 17:10 stirlingbot[bot]