ChickenBoo

If you want to host it locally, Stirling PDF can be run in docker, and uses a library that uses Tesseract. Has a bunch of other handy PDF operations, too. I keep it around for the two times a year I need to merge, split, or decrypt PDFs.

https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/HowToUseOCR.md

It can do it straight from PDF and do multiple files at a time.

You can do the basic records via file. /etc/pihole/custom.list is a hosts formatted file for records so you don’t have to use a gui.

I had dns issues until I got my allowed ips squared away. You could try setting it to 0.0.0.0/0 if it’s not already to verify it’s not the problem.

I use this guy https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn

Open up the transmission rpc port and you’re golden. It also sets up a proxy for any other services/devices you want to run through the VPN. Supports port forwarding for PIA too.

Even if your router can issue two DNS servers you shouldn’t add a second that’s not a pihole.

Otherwise a client will just fail over any blocked lookups to the secondary, negating the purpose of a pihole.

I found it easiest to get them running on docker. The documentation wasn’t FANTASTIC, but it got me there in the end.

Then I have nginx proxy manager running in another docker container, which handles the virtual hosts for me. It’s the one actually bound to 80 and 443. Will help you get set up with SSL certs easily, too.

I use nginx proxy manager to route all my services. Just forward 80 and 443 from my router to that.

It won’t scale linearly. A lot of those users will be subscribed to subs the instance is already replicating. It would only be new subs that would add to the growth.