Nothing has to come from your distribution’s repositories: the whole tool runs in the browser tab, in Firefox, Chrome or Chromium. In Chrome or Chromium it installs as an app, so it sits on the launcher and keeps working offline once loaded; Firefox uses it as a page. Turn on bookmarks and every source file becomes an entry in the merged PDF’s outline. Originals are never modified.
How it works
- Open Bindery in Firefox or Chrome and drop the PDFs anywhere
- Arrange them on the board and click “Merge locally”
- Download the merged PDF — the originals stay untouched
Questions people ask
Why use this instead of pdfunite or qpdf?
Those work well if they are installed and you know the flags. Bindery adds a visual board with page previews so the order is never a guess, writes an outline with a bookmark per source, needs nothing from the distribution’s repositories, and works the same in Firefox, Chrome and Chromium.
Does it need root or system packages?
No. It runs in the browser you already have; nothing is installed system-wide. Chrome and Chromium can install it as an app for the launcher, and it keeps working offline once loaded. No network request carries the PDF while it is processed.
Which browsers work on Linux?
Current Firefox, Chrome and Chromium. Installing Bindery as an app — for a launcher icon, offline use and saving straight into a chosen folder — is a Chrome and Chromium feature; in Firefox it runs as an ordinary page with every tool available.