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Issued is a fast, self-hosted comic library server for CBZ, CBR, CB7, and PDF files. It scans an existing comics folder without requiring reorganization, detects new files automatically, extracts pages and metadata, generates thumbnails, and builds a searchable library database. The server provides a browser-based reader and an OPDS catalog for compatible apps such as Panels and Chunky. It tracks reading progress, supports ongoing-series tracking with latest-issue and possible-gap information, and can resume the latest unfinished issue or start the next unread one. Issued is distributed as a Docker image or standalone executable, with CBR support requiring unrar, and is licensed under the MIT License.

BookOrbit is a self-hosted library and reading platform for ebooks, PDFs, audiobooks, and comics. It provides web readers and synchronizes reading progress, highlights, annotations, and reading status between BookOrbit, Kobo devices, and KOReader. The platform includes library management with metadata enrichment, multiple libraries, collections and rule-based saved filters, multi-user accounts with OIDC/SSO, OPDS access, Send-to-Kindle delivery, and browser uploads. It also provides reading statistics, goals, achievements, searchable annotation exports, and synchronization with services including Hardcover, Readwise, and StoryGraph. The project is designed to run on infrastructure controlled by the operator.

ComPDF Self-Hosted is an open-source PDF editing, conversion, and document-processing platform from the KDAN ecosystem. It is deployed privately with Docker Compose and provides a browser-accessible tool center for merging, splitting, rotating, watermarking, encrypting, decrypting, and otherwise editing PDFs, as well as converting between PDF, Office formats, HTML, TXT, CSV, RTF, JSON, Markdown, OFD, and image formats. Its image-conversion functions include image-to-document and image-to-PDF workflows, with OCR-related capabilities indicated by the repository topics. A management console handles API keys, API usage, license status, operation-log auditing, account management, and system configuration; commercial support and an enterprise upgrade are also offered.

Karakeep is a self-hostable bookmark-everything application for links, notes, images, and PDFs. It fetches link metadata, archives complete web pages with Monolith to help protect against link rot, can archive videos using yt-dlp, and supports browser extensions, mobile apps, offline reading, RSS ingestion, and importers from several bookmarking services. It provides full-text and semantic search, OCR for image text, lists and collaboration, highlights, rule-based management, and bulk actions. LLM-based automatic tagging and summarization can use local models through Ollama; the project also provides a REST API, CLI, multiple clients, and support for browser-bookmark synchronization via Floccus.

Prismedia is a private, self-hosted media library for managing and using movies, series, music, books, audiobooks, comics, images, and galleries across a web app and native apps for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. It uses a shared media entity containing an item's identity, metadata, artwork, files, relationships, and personal progress, while providing medium-specific playback, reading, and listening experiences. The server scans watched folders, identifies items through metadata-provider plugins, organizes files and relationships, and supports browser and native playback with resume support, subtitles, and client-dependent direct playback or conversion. It includes EPUB, PDF, and comic readers, audiobook playback, music queues, media requests through optional indexers and download clients, household accounts, background jobs, and database backups. It runs as a Docker container containing the database, web app, API, worker, and media tools; users supply their own media files.