Stirling PDF

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Self-hostable web-based PDF editing tool

About

• Stirling PDF is an open-source PDF editing platform that can edit, sign, redact, convert, and automate PDFs without sending documents to external services
• Supports a personal desktop app, a browser UI, deployment on your own server, and a private API, so it can run to suit your work environment
• Provides over 50 PDF tools, including features such as merge, split, OCR, and compression, plus UI-based no-code pipelines and API automation
• For enterprise use, offers SSO, auditing, and on-premises deployment; most tools have a REST API, so it can integrate with existing systems
• Quick start: run docker run -p 8080:8080 docker.stirlingpdf.com/stirlingtools/stirling-pdf with Docker, then open it

See also

• PDF
• Typst

Favorite site

• Github - Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
• Stirling PDF: Self-hostable web-based PDF editing tool | GeekNews