When it comes to self-hosting services, there’s always a question of whether deploying a local container is worth the extra hassle when you can just access cloud-based platforms. However, Vert is one instance where it’s always better to ditch the online apps for a containerized solution.
For starters, you’ll have to upload your documents to third-party servers when converting PDFs, JPGs, or other documents via online platforms. While many websites claim to delete your data after a specific span of time, there’s a huge privacy issue every time you send private files to an external server.
ffmpeg is the best file converter
and ImageMagick for everything that ffmpeg doesn’t support.
I’m using ConvertX and I’ve liked it. How is this one better?
I’m running this. There are a few things I don’t like about it. The biggest issue for me is that it touts itself as a privacy-centric file converter, but then it makes requests to Google Fonts and Cloudflare. I’ve blocked loading of those scripts in my browser, but I don’t understand why you would add those things to a service that’s supposed to be focused on privacy.
The other issue I had is that the default video conversion server URL is baked into the Docker image. Whereas normally I would configure something like this by simply passing an env var through to the container, here I have to build my own image which makes updating the container more of a hassle.
Seems to be fine as a file converter though.
This Google/cloud flare stuff drives me nuts.
Fonts aren’t that big. I’ll be happy to host them. Why does Google/cloud flare need to be involved here?
Check out the live instance at vert.sh
Interesting! It can convert images, audio, docs, video. Normally I would just use CLIs for this type of thing, but actually I could see this being handy for non-techies in the household.
Why do you need to convert files so often?
I convert all my jpg to jpeg because i want the expert version.
I dont want a jpeg, i just want a got dang hotdog!
Oh hell yes I need this
