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librephotosvsPDFMathTranslate

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

librephotosPDFMathTranslate
Score71/10080/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#1 of 9 in Translation
GitHub stars8 11838 000
Stars, last 30 days+35+288
Stable releases, 12 months130
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

PDFMathTranslate scores 80/100 against 71/100 for librephotos, so it is the safer default.

librephotos ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for PDFMathTranslate.

If you want the quickest setup, PDFMathTranslate is easier to run; librephotos needs more configuration.

PDFMathTranslate is growing faster right now (+288 stars in 30 days).

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