Markdown Viewer is a macOS application that enables Quick Look preview and PDF opening of Markdown documents with GitHub-flavored Markdown support. It renders Markdown as formatted text in Finder and converts documents to paginated PDFs for Preview, supporting light/dark modes and local images via relative links.
AntiPDF is a Windows PDF reader and editor that offers a distraction-free reading experience with features like text reflow, dark mode support, OCR, markup tools, and local processing without ads or tracking. The app provides free basic functionality with optional Pro features for redaction, signatures, and document sharing.
Nostos is a self-hosted application that integrates reading, note-taking, and writing in one environment. Users can manage physical books, EPUBs, PDFs, and audiobooks; capture contextual notes and highlights; connect ideas through a wiki-like topic system; and draft writing projects with source material accessible alongside. The interface prioritizes focused work over social features and engagement mechanics.
A browser-based PDF and EPUB reader that integrates AI assistance, allowing users to ask questions about document content with answers linked directly to relevant passages. The AI operates in the document margin without uploading files, enabling seamless reading, querying, and verification without leaving the page.
The author created a personal web-based PDF reader because existing options lacked speed, comfortable note-taking/highlighting, and easy navigation. The project exemplifies 'home-cooked software'—building for oneself rather than mass audiences—and demonstrated how AI tools accelerated the development process.
A developer created an open-source app to extract charts and diagrams from PDFs as vector SVG files instead of raster images, solving the problem of pixelated screenshots when zooming on mobile devices. The solution uses Poppler command-line tools and a Qt-based GUI, making what seemed like a complex problem surprisingly simple.
SVG Spark is a collection of 10 client-side web tools for design and development tasks, including SVG-to-image conversion, regex visualization, social media image resizing, PDF manipulation, data format conversion, and accessibility checking.
Whitedeck is a command-line tool that converts markdown into presentation slides styled after Apple Keynote's plain White theme, outputting to HTML, PDF, PPTX, and native .key formats. Designed for AI agents to generate professional slides without decorative excess, it enforces Apple's exact layout geometry and supports cross-platform builds on macOS, Linux, and Windows.