CLUSTER PDF-TERMINAL-COMMAND · 14 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2023-08-10
Terminal PDF reader tools
This cluster comprises command-line and terminal-based utilities for reading, searching, and rendering PDF documents, often with dark-mode, vim keybindings, or SIXEL image support. Dated entries are spread thinly from February 2017 to July 2026, with most months having a single entry and two in 2026-07, showing no clear growth pattern. Traction leaders skim-dark, flerp, and pdf-tui each have 0 stars, indicating no dominant player yet.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 12 unlabelled
Operator · 14 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 14 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01flerp0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal UI application that allows users to explore and analyze text files, PDFs, and images directly from the command line.
- 02pdf-tui0★23 daysliveopen sourceTerminal reader for PDF files with a text user interface and graphics support.
- 03tpdf0★2 moliveopen sourceA terminal PDF viewer with vim keybindings and watch mode.
- 04guile-reader0★4 moliveopen sourceFramework that provides building blocks for creating text readers in GNU Guile.
- 05fancy-cat0★3 molivehand-codedopen sourceA PDF reader that works in terminal emulators.
- 06fltrdr0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal-based text reader that allows comfortable reading of text files directly in the terminal.
- 07acroread-dc-wine0★21 daysliveopen sourcePackage that runs Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer on Linux via Wine.
- 08pdf-cli0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal viewer for PDF, EPUB, and DOCX documents with fuzzy search and image rendering.
- 09lumus0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that reads and displays PDF files in the terminal.
- 10npdfr0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line PDF reader that focuses on quickly searching within PDF documents.
- 11pdfgrep_sixel0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceSearch text in PDF files and display result pages as images in SIXEL-capable terminals.
- 12nightpdf0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourcePDF reader with dark mode for comfortable reading in low-light environments.
- 13term-pdf0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based PDF viewer that lets users read and navigate PDF documents without leaving the command line.
- 14bibbja0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal application that presents the Maltese-language Catholic Bible to readers who want scripture on the command line.
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