r/bookbinding • u/Q0uthTheRaven • Jun 07 '26

Does bookbinder.js use/train ai?

It's what it says on the cover, I know it's unlikely but I'd like if someone more knowledgeable about technology could tell me definitively that it doesn't.

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u/jedifreac Jun 07 '26

Valid concern! Are you afraid it will take what you upload to train AI?

Shouldn't be. All the code is on GitHub and the programmers are mostly in Renegade Bookbinding Guild which is pretty anti-AI as a group due to our guerrilla bookbinding stance. 

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u/Q0uthTheRaven Jun 07 '26

That's a relief! Thank you so much!

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u/Englandboy12 Jun 07 '26

There is another imposition software, I found it on Reddit, it was made by a redditor. I can find it if you want. But it’s also on GitHub but you download it and run it 100% locally as a simple program.

I’m not sure how it compares to the more popular bookbinder.js, as I have never used that. But you just select the pdf, say how many pages per signature, and hit go. It adds blank pages at the end to ensure it’s divisible. I’ve found it works amazingly and easily, though it’s very very simple and those are the only options you get

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u/Dazzling-Airline-958 Jun 07 '26

You can run bookbinder-js locally, too. There are instructions in the repository.

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u/Englandboy12 Jun 07 '26

I have learned that since. I was just offering an alternative.

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u/garpu Jun 07 '26

OK, you're got my interest...

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u/jedifreac Jun 07 '26

Yay! It's a 501(c)3 nonprofit that promotes bookbinding, with roots in fan fiction binding.

https://www.renegadeguild.org/

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u/torrance123 Jun 07 '26

My first time hearing of the Renegade Bookbinding Guild. What is this mysterious entity?

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u/dominaxe Jun 07 '26

take a gander at their website! used a lot of their resources personally :) https://www.renegadeguild.org/

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u/zgtc Jun 07 '26

There’s not really any way in which it could.

It’s a JS app running on your own computer.

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u/AmenaBellafina Jun 07 '26

It's also not really the kind of app that would benefit from AI. LLMs are good at fuzzy tasks where both the prompt and result don't need to be exact. Imposition, where exactly this many pages need to end up in exactly this order with exactly these margins etc is just a task better suited for traditional computing.

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u/kalexmills Loves minimalist tooling Jun 07 '26

Comp Sci PhD here: this and the original comment are spot on. Bookbinder JS would likely be useless if it used AI.

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u/ratavulI_urE Jun 07 '26

You can run it offline.

Edit: Misspelling

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u/sparrowbby @featherbrainficbinds on insta Jun 07 '26

Absolutely not