Hello Alinur,
First of all, thank you for building LocalPDF Studio! It is an amazing, lightweight, and privacy-focused suite for Linux desktops.
As a feedback from a user running your software completely offline on Debian 13, there is one crucial tool currently missing to make this the ultimate desktop PDF suite: an offline PDF to Excel (.xlsx) converter.
Context & Motivation
Many users (including myself) need to extract financial tables, corporate reports, and bank/brokerage data (like B3 negotiation notes) into spreadsheet tools such as LibreOffice Calc or Microsoft Excel. Current tools in Linux either fail to maintain column structures or force the user to upload files to online servers, breaking data privacy rules.
Suggested Feature
It would be fantastic to have a dedicated tool block in the dashboard to extract structured tables from PDFs into native .xlsx or .csv files. Since the backend runs on .NET 8 / Python, leveraging mature layout-aware libraries for table extraction (like Tabula or similar native parsers) would allow perfect offline generation without breaking tabular alignments.
Thank you for your incredible work and fast evolution on this project!
Hello Alinur,
First of all, thank you for building LocalPDF Studio! It is an amazing, lightweight, and privacy-focused suite for Linux desktops.
As a feedback from a user running your software completely offline on Debian 13, there is one crucial tool currently missing to make this the ultimate desktop PDF suite: an offline PDF to Excel (.xlsx) converter.
Context & Motivation
Many users (including myself) need to extract financial tables, corporate reports, and bank/brokerage data (like B3 negotiation notes) into spreadsheet tools such as LibreOffice Calc or Microsoft Excel. Current tools in Linux either fail to maintain column structures or force the user to upload files to online servers, breaking data privacy rules.
Suggested Feature
It would be fantastic to have a dedicated tool block in the dashboard to extract structured tables from PDFs into native
.xlsxor.csvfiles. Since the backend runs on .NET 8 / Python, leveraging mature layout-aware libraries for table extraction (like Tabula or similar native parsers) would allow perfect offline generation without breaking tabular alignments.Thank you for your incredible work and fast evolution on this project!