hygg

Minimalistic Vim-style TUI document reader for PDF, EPUB, and DOCX in the terminal.

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hygg is a free, open-source terminal document reader with Vim-style keybindings, supporting PDF, EPUB, DOCX and other formats (with OCR for scanned documents). It targets terminal-first, keyboard-driven users who want to read and search documents without leaving the command line, with features like bookmarks, highlighting, automatic progress saving, and an optional self-hosted sync server.

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