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PDFMathTranslatevsVisionState

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

PDFMathTranslateVisionState
Score80/10049/100
Rank in category#1 of 9 in Translation#73 of 104 in Home Automation
GitHub stars38 008171
Stars, last 30 days+296+40
Stable releases, 12 months020
Latest release—v0.11.0 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

PDFMathTranslate scores 80/100 against 49/100 for VisionState, so it is the safer default.

VisionState ships more often: 20 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for PDFMathTranslate.

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

PDFMathTranslate is growing faster right now (+296 stars in 30 days).

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