Industry

Media & publishing

Ingest, process, distribute — at your scale.

Publishers, studios, podcast networks, and content platforms pipe audio, video, images, ebooks, and scripts through self-hosted workers instead of paying SaaS per transform.

The pain

Content platforms burn budget on third-party media APIs and live with opaque pipelines they can’t tune or inspect. Cost grows with usage; control doesn’t.

Why the suite fits

The media services are self-hosted workers for every format: Crunch (image), Mixtape (audio), Photron (video), Gofer (slides), Shelf (ebooks), Greenlight (screenplays), Monocle (OCR). Each takes S3 input, runs a YAML pipeline, writes S3 output, fires a webhook.

In practice

Scenarios

Build a podcast ingest pipeline

Mixtape normalises, trims silence, and generates waveforms. Your app just consumes the webhook.

Auto-publish ebooks

Shelf takes a manuscript, produces EPUB, validates it, converts to MOBI and PDF, and fires a ready-to-publish webhook.

OCR an archive overnight

Monocle extracts text from thousands of scanned PDFs. Results land in your search index.

Recommended stack

Products that fit this industry

Crunch

Media

A job queue manager that batch-processes images — converts, resizes, compresses, watermarks, applies effects, then stores results back to S3.

Format conversion across PNGMulti-pass optimizationResize by dimensions

Mixtape

Media

A job queue manager processing audio — converting formats, resampling, normalising, and applying effects — then storing results to S3.

Format conversionResamplingEffects

Photron

Media

A job queue manager converting and encoding video files using FFmpeg across multiple formats and quality levels.

Video format conversion via FFmpegBitrate and quality controlThumbnail generation

Gofer

Media

A job queue manager converting Office documents (PPTX, ODP) to PDF and image packages using Gotenberg plus image optimizers.

PPTX and ODP to PDF conversionPDF compression via GhostscriptPDF-to-PNG rastering via pdftoppm with resilient

Shelf

Media

A job queue manager converting documents (DOCX, Markdown, ODT, HTML, RTF, TXT) to validated ebook packages (EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, PDF).

Document → EPUB conversion via PandocEPUB validation via EPUBCheck (W3C conformance)EPUB accessibility checking via Ace by

Greenlight

Media

A job queue manager converting screenwriting formats (FDX, Fountain, FadeIn, PDF) to and from ScreenJSON with validation and AES-256 encryption.

Convert FDXExport ScreenJSON → FDXSchema validation against ScreenJSON conformance specs

Monocle

Media

A job queue manager extracting text and metadata from documents and images using Apache Tika and Tesseract OCR.

Extract text from PDFsOCR text recognition from images andMetadata extraction to JSON

Depot

Storage

A web GUI for browsing and managing object storage (S3, MinIO, Azure Blob) without exposing admin credentials to developers.

Multi-engineGrid and list view modes withInline image preview in a detail

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