populus-viewer vs lector

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populus-viewer		lector
	Project
2	Mentions	2
119	Stars	209
0.8%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
9 months ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0	License	MIT License

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populus-viewer

Posts with mentions or reviews of populus-viewer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-02.

Is there a self hosted software available for online pdf annotation?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 9 Jan 2023

I use populus-viewer.
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2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 May 2022

Hi, this looks a lot like this project:
https://github.com/DanilaFe/matrix-highlight
It that leverages the multiple possibilities of open standards like Matrix to make a really cool to highlight web page contents and fostering discutions, all from any server you want :D
Also another project, cited in the README of matrix-highlight:
https://github.com/opentower/populus-viewer

lector

Posts with mentions or reviews of lector. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

I just found Lector PDF Reader; open source - VERY simple PDF Reader built using Electron and PDF.js. Shame it's not updated since 2019 but it seems the perfect 'just for reading' PDF reader app
1 project | /r/u_riposte94 | 16 Nov 2021

1 project | /r/windowsapps | 16 Nov 2021

Github link: https://github.com/sagargurtu/lector/ alternativeto link: https://alternativeto.net/software/lector--pdf-reader/about/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing populus-viewer and lector you can also consider the following projects:

ng2-pdfjs-viewer - An angular component for PDFJS and ViewerJS (Supports all versions of angular)

electron-vue - An Electron & Vue.js quick start boilerplate with vue-cli scaffolding, common Vue plugins, electron-packager/electron-builder, unit/e2e testing, vue-devtools, and webpack.

matrix-highlight - A decentralized and federated way of annotating the web based on Matrix.

action-electron-builder - :electron: GitHub Action for building and releasing Electron apps

pv - Electron app for viewing PDF with simple vim binding

qt-pdf-viewer-library - The qt-pdf-viewer-library is a qml wrapper of pdf.js library which allows you to render PDF files in a WebView. This library also works on Android devices, and it uses WebSocketServer, WebSocketTransport and WebChannel to exchange data between qml and the browser environment.

pv - Pipe Viewer Mirror - 1.6