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Stirling PDF

Powerful self-hosted PDF editor with over 50 operations for your documents.

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  • PDF Tool Hub

    The Stirling PDF home page showing the file workspace on the left and the comprehensive tools panel on the right, with categories including Recommended, Signing, Document Security, and more.

  • Merge PDFs

    The Merge PDF tool showing the step-by-step workflow panel for combining multiple PDF files into one document, with file upload and sort order options.

  • Convert PDF

    The Convert PDF tool for transforming PDFs to and from formats like Word, Excel, images, and HTML, with source and target format selectors.

  • Compress PDF

    The Compress PDF tool for reducing PDF file sizes, with configurable compression level settings.

About this app

Stirling PDF is a robust, locally-hosted web application that lets you perform a wide range of operations on PDF files entirely within your browser. It supports over 50 PDF tools including merging, splitting, converting, compressing, watermarking, and editing PDFs with no data sent to third-party servers. The application is built on Spring Boot and provides both a user-friendly web interface and a REST API for automation.

  • Authentication:
  • Access Control:
    Unlimited Users
  • Data:
    Data Export
  • Integrations:
    REST API
  • UI:
  • Productivity:
    File Format ConversionPDF Processing & Editing

Last activity

about 13 hours ago*

87.6k stars

7.8k forks

Funding

SaaS

Also offered as a paid cloud service

Premium Features

Free core with paid add-ons

Technology stack

  • Dockerfile
  • Java
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • Shell
  • Python
  • Gherkin
  • Rich Text Format
  • Batchfile

License

Custom

Custom or non-standard license

Content outside the app/proprietary, app/saas, engine, and related frontend/editor subdirectories is MIT-licensed. Those subdirectories (SSO, advanced monitoring, and other Pro/Enterprise features) are governed by the separate, proprietary "Stirling PDF User License" and require a paid subscription for production use.

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