I, Librarian
I, Librarian is a PHP-based application that organizes PDF papers and office documents. It provides a lot of extra features for students.
Overview
I, Librarian - open-source version of a PDF managing SaaS. The project has 327 GitHub stars and is licensed under GPL-3.0.
Getting Started
Source: GitHub README
You can download and execute installers for Windows 10 plus a DEB package and a console installer for Ubuntu, Debian, and its derivatives. An installer for Mac OS X is not available. These installers will install and/or configure Apache and PHP for you. If you don’t want that, follow the instructions below to install manually.
Normalized Features
Source: tool-features-normalized.json
brew, docker.
Deploy
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