QuantilyxDoc

Professional Open-Source Document Editor for Linux

"Where innovation is the key to success"

📋 Overview

QuantilyxDoc is a powerful, feature-rich document editor designed to give you complete control over your PDF and document files. Built on the principle of document liberation, QuantilyxDoc helps you view, edit, convert, and manage documents without artificial restrictions. QuantilyxDoc's original vision was to liberate us from the proprietary software Abobe Acrobat Pro.

🎯 Key Philosophy

We believe users should have complete control over documents they legally own.

❌ No copy protection
❌ No print restrictions
❌ No artificial limitations
✅ Full document liberation
✅ Password removal tools
✅ Complete transparency

✨ Features

📄 Universal Document Support

15+ formats: PDF, EPUB, DjVu, CBR/CBZ, PostScript, XPS, CHM, Markdown, Mobi, Images, 2D CAD, and more
Seamless format conversion
High-quality rendering

✏️ Advanced Editing

Rich text editing with Office suite features
Advanced typography and OpenType support
Drawing tools and shape library
Form creation and editing
18+ annotation types
Table creation and manipulation

🔍 OCR & Recognition

Dual OCR engines (Tesseract & PaddleOCR)
50+ language support
Batch OCR processing
Smart content recognition
Auto-enhancement of scanned documents

🔓 Security & Liberation

Remove document passwords (owner & user)
Document sanitization and privacy protection
Digital signatures and certificates
Redaction with verification
Audit trail system

⚙️ Automation

Visual workflow builder
Watched folders with smart actions
Batch processing for any operation
Macro recording and playback
Lua/Python scripting support

🔄 Conversion

Convert between 50+ formats
Conversion profiles for common scenarios
Batch conversion
Quality optimization
Universal converter plugin

🎨 Design & Templates

Professional document templates
Brand kit manager
Advanced graphics tools
Typography management
Style guides

📚 Document Management

Virtual library with smart collections
Advanced tagging and metadata
Document relationships and linking
Version control with Git-like features
Full-text search across all documents

🚀 Getting Started

System Requirements

Minimum:

Debian 9 / Ubuntu 16.04 or newer
2 GB RAM
500 MB disk space
1024x768 display

Recommended:

Debian 12 / Ubuntu 22.04 or newer
8 GB RAM
2 GB disk space
1920x1080 display
Multi-core processor

Dependencies

# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install \
    build-essential \
    cmake \
    qtbase5-dev \
    qtchooser \
    qt5-qmake \
    qtbase5-dev-tools \
    qttools5-dev \
    libpoppler-qt5-dev \
    libssl-dev \
    zlib1g-dev \
    qpdf \
    libqpdf-dev \
    tesseract-ocr \
    libtesseract-dev \
    ghostscript \
    libgs-dev

# Optional dependencies
sudo apt-get install \
    libdjvulibre-dev \
    libspectre-dev \
    libarchive-dev \
    libchm-dev

Building from Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/R-Square-Innovative-Software/QuantilyxDoc.git
cd QuantilyxDoc

# Build
./build.sh

# Install
sudo ./build.sh --install

# Run
quantilyxdoc

Build Options

./build.sh --help              # Show all options
./build.sh --debug             # Debug build
./build.sh --clean --install   # Clean, build, and install
./build.sh --legacy            # Build for Debian 9
./build.sh -j 8                # Build with 8 parallel jobs

📖 Documentation

User Manual: docs/user-manual/index.html
Configuration Reference: docs/user-manual/reference/configuration-reference.html
Keyboard Shortcuts: docs/user-manual/reference/keyboard-shortcuts.html
API Documentation: docs/developer/api/index.html
Plugin Development: docs/developer/plugins/index.html

Multi-Language Support

Documentation available in:

🇬🇧 English
🇫🇷 Français
🇩🇪 Deutsch
🇨🇳 中文
🇪🇸 Español
🇷🇺 Русский

⚙️ Configuration

QuantilyxDoc is completely configurable with 500+ settings:

# Configuration file location
~/.config/quantilyxdoc/quantilyxdoc.ini

# Cache and logs
~/.cache/quantilyxdoc/

# Data directory
~/.local/share/quantilyxdoc/

Preferences Dialog: Edit → Preferences (Ctrl+,)

See the Complete Configuration Reference for all settings.

🔌 Plugins

QuantilyxDoc supports optional plugins:

AI Assistant - Summarization, Q&A, translation
Advanced OCR - Handwriting, formulas
Data Extraction - Invoices, resumes, forms
Version Control - Git-like versioning
Accessibility - WCAG checker, auto-fixer
Forensics - Tamper detection, author attribution
Research Tools - Citations, bibliography
Universal Converter - 50+ format conversion
Mobile Companion - Remote control, sync

Install plugins via: Tools → Plugin Manager

🛠️ Development

Project Structure

QuantilyxDoc/
├── src/                  # Source code
├── resources/            # Images, translations, themes
├── plugins/              # Optional plugins
├── docs/                 # Documentation
├── tests/                # Unit tests
├── build-scripts/        # Build automation
├── cmake/                # CMake modules
├── debian/               # Debian packaging
└── rpm/                  # RPM packaging

Building Packages

# DEB package
./build-scripts/package-deb.sh

# RPM package
./build-scripts/package-rpm.sh

# AppImage
./build-scripts/package-appimage.sh

# Flatpak
./build-scripts/package-flatpak.sh

# TAR.GZ
./build-scripts/package-tar.sh

Running Tests

cd build
ctest --output-on-failure

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Ways to Contribute

🐛 Report bugs
💡 Suggest features
📝 Improve documentation
🌍 Translate to new languages
🔌 Create plugins
💻 Submit code improvements

Code of Conduct

This project follows the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct.

📜 License

QuantilyxDoc is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

See LICENSE for the full license text.

Key Points:

✅ Free to use, modify, and distribute
✅ Source code must remain open
✅ Derivatives must use GPLv3
✅ No warranty provided

👥 Authors & Credits

Developer: R² Innovative Software Development Team
Company: R² Innovative Software
Motto: "Where innovation is the key to success"
Website: https://r2innovation.github.io/

Third-Party Libraries

Qt5 - Application framework (LGPL)
Poppler - PDF rendering (GPL)
Tesseract - OCR engine (Apache 2.0)
OpenSSL - Cryptography (Apache 2.0)
And many more... see CREDITS.md

📞 Support

🐛 Bug Reports: GitHub Issues
💬 Discussions: GitHub Discussions
📧 Email: support@rsquaretech.example
📖 Documentation: User Manual
❓ FAQ: docs/user-manual/faq/index.html

🗺️ Roadmap

Version 1.0 (Current)

✅ Core PDF editing
✅ 15+ format support
✅ OCR integration
✅ Password removal
✅ 500+ configuration options

Version 1.1 (Future)

Advanced search improvements
Enhanced automation workflows
More plugins
Performance optimizations

Version 1.5 (Future)

Cloud collaboration (optional)
Mobile companion app
Advanced AI features
Professional publishing tools

Version 2.0 (Vision)

Major UI refresh
Rewritten rendering engine
GPU acceleration
Real-time collaboration

📊 Statistics

Lines of Code: ~250,000
Features: 180+
Configuration Options: 500+
Supported Formats: 15+
Languages: 6
Plugins: 12

⭐ Star History

If you find QuantilyxDoc useful, please consider giving it a star! ⭐

📸 Screenshots

Main interface with dockable panels

Advanced PDF editing capabilities

Batch OCR with dual engine support

Document liberation - password removal

🎯 Mission

Our mission is to create the most powerful, user-friendly, and unrestricted document editor for Linux. We believe in document liberation - users should have complete control over documents they legally own.

Built with ❤️ by R² Innovative Software