• 9point6@lemmy.world
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      What are you trying to convert? Generally shoving “open source software” on the end of the search query will get you something legit

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          Fair play!

          If you need to convert audio or video, ffmpeg is your man

          If you need to convert a document pandoc is what you need

          If you need to convert an image, imagemagick

          If you need to “convert” some online media into local media, yt-dlp

          Can’t think of another use case that people would regularly be converting off the top of my head, but happy to fill in any gaps if there are any

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        In this case the advantage is that you don’t need to download anything, and I’ll admit that I used websites like this years ago

        For example, PNG to ICO, or PDF to Word, when people don’t have a tool installed and they look up how to do it, these websites pop up and it feels very convenient.

        Maybe there is a utility that can be self hosted for this. Something like StirlingPDF but for all kinds of files

        https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

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          +1 for StirlingPDF, amazing tool. I use Handbrake for video conversion and Gimp for images. IT-tools for text based conversions, but it does many other things too and can be self hosted.

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      The legitimate ones could charge for large files / batch processing

      As for which ones are legitimate and which ones are malware, ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯