install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install briss

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#briss

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/br/briss/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Crop PDF files

Project links

Commands and aliases

briss

history

Project history and usage

Briss is a small Java/Swing utility for visually cropping PDF pages, especially scans and multi-column documents. Its niche is the simple desktop workflow: overlay pages, draw crop rectangles, and export a PDF with adjusted visible page regions.

Project history

The project was registered on SourceForge in May 2010 by the maintainer account laborg and published GPLv3 releases through SourceForge. The official project page describes it as a spare-time, cross-platform application for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, with development and bug tracking hosted on SourceForge.

The public release train is compact: SourceForge lists early 0.0.x releases beginning in May 2010, followed by 0.0.13 in April 2011 and the 0.9 release in May 2012. The SourceForge summary records a later project update in May 2013, but the release history remains centered on the 2010-2012 period.

Adoption history

Briss became one of those package-manager-preserved desktop utilities: not a large ecosystem project, but useful enough for Homebrew and Nix to keep packaging it years after upstream activity slowed. SourceForge still shows ongoing weekly downloads and user reviews, indicating continuing long-tail use.

How it is used

Users run Briss when a scanned PDF or two-up document needs manual crop boxes rather than automated OCR/layout processing. The interface is graphical, but Homebrew exposes it as the `briss` executable so it fits into a Unix package collection despite being a desktop app.

Why package nerds care

For package-history purposes, Briss is a good example of the tiny Java GUI utilities that survived because package managers made old but still-useful desktop workflows easy to reinstall. It also illustrates the difference between visible cropping metadata and destructive redaction, a recurring footnote in PDF tooling.

Timeline

2010-05-04: SourceForge project registered.
2010-05-10: Earliest listed SourceForge release, 0.0.2.
2012-05-26: Briss 0.9 release posted on SourceForge.
2013-05-20: SourceForge records the project's last update.

Related projects

Related package-manager neighbors include PDF Arranger for rearranging, splitting, and merging PDFs; ScanTailor-style tools for scanned-page cleanup; and lower-level PDF toolkits such as pdftk, qpdf, and mutool for scripted PDF manipulation.

Sources

https://briss.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/files/
source_facts.package-manager

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.
Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`briss`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08

manager version0.9

manager updated

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://briss.sourceforge.net/

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://briss.sourceforge.net/none confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:briss
Version	0.9
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/briss
Homepage	https://briss.sourceforge.net/
Repository	https://sourceforge.net/p/briss/code
Upstream docs	https://briss.sourceforge.net/
License	GPL-3.0-or-later
Source archive	https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/briss/release%200.9/briss-0.9.tar.gz
Dependencies	openjdk
Bottle	available (on all)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	briss
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

briss

nix profile install nixpkgs#briss

normalized package name match
Matched by: Briss

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/br/briss/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/briss.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

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