Deploy PDFMathTranslate on Pethost in one click

What happens

1. You sign in to Pethost or make an account, with a passkey, GitHub or Google.
2. No machine yet? You pick a plan, and we prepare one for you. The link waits in your browser until it is ready.
3. New project opens at the app. You fill in what it asks for and click Create project: Admin password.
4. In a minute or two the app is live at its own address with HTTPS. Its secrets are made for it at random, and its data is in the nightly backup.
5. It is a project like any other: its compose.yaml, its .env, its logs and a terminal are in the panel, and your agent can change it, roll it back or restore it.

First steps

Sign in as admin with the admin password you gave; it must have no comma. Pick Bing as the service to translate with no key: Google's free service often refuses a server's address. For DeepL, OpenAI and the others, enter a key on the page.

What it runs

The template is this compose.yaml and the variables it writes into the project’s .env. Pethost runs the file as it is written.

services:
  pdf2zh:
    image: byaidu/pdf2zh:1.9.11
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      ADMIN_PASSWORD: ${ADMIN_PASSWORD}
    # Without a file of users the web page is open to anyone with the address, and each visitor's
    # PDFs are translated on this machine: the user admin with the password given is the only one.
    entrypoint:
      - sh
      - -c
      - |
        printf 'admin,%s\n' "$$ADMIN_PASSWORD" > /tmp/users.txt
        exec pdf2zh -i --authorized /tmp/users.txt
    volumes:
      # The services' settings and API keys entered on the page.
      - config:/root/.config/PDFMathTranslate
volumes:
  config:

compose.yamlSee it on GitHub