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Stirling-PDF

 19 likes

locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files.

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License model

  • Freemium • Open Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Online
  • Self-Hosted
  • WebApps  Example host: [https://pdf.adminforge.de/](https://pdf.adminforge.de/)
  • Docker Hub  [https://hub.docker.com/r/frooodle/s-pdf](https://hub.docker.com/r/frooodle/s-pdf)
  • Mac
  • Windows
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4.4 / 5 Avg rating (5)
19likes
3comments
47alternatives
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Features

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  Combine PDF
  2.  No registration required
  3.  PDF compression
  4. Docker icon  Support for Docker
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  PDF annotation
  7.  Works Offline
  8.  Split PDF files
  9.  No Tracking
  10.  Dark Mode
  11.  Sign PDF files
  12.  PDF encryption
  13.  OCR
  14.  Fill PDF Forms
  15.  Portable
  16.  PDF OCR
  17.  E-signature

 Tags

  • Java
  • pdf-tools
  • pdfmerger
  • pdf-web-apps
  • pdf-merger
  • pdf
  • pdf-manipulation

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  • NECOdes and TBayAreaPat liked Stirling-PDF
    •about 5 hours ago
  • TBayAreaPat commented on Stirling-PDF
    •7 days ago

    Note that this does have a standard Windows Desktop installation too.. available at GitHub.

  • delpher, namdx1987, PredatorQ and POX liked Stirling-PDF
    •9 days ago
  • Overspend7763 updated Stirling-PDF
    •14 days ago
  • Caedus reviewed Stirling-PDF  
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    •14 days ago

    Can't find the option to compress PDFs, I don't believe it has one.

  • Overspend7763 reviewed Stirling-PDF  
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    •14 days ago

    Extremely complete and easy to use, works offline

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Stirling-PDF information

  • Developed by

    US flagStirling-PDF, Inc.

  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    free version with limited functionality.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4

  • Alternatives

    47 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Azerbaijani
    • Basque
    • Bulgarian
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hindi
    • Hungarian
    • Indonesian
    • Irish
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Norwegian
    • Persian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Serbian
    • Chinese
    • Slovak
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Thai
    • Tibetan Standard, Tibetan, Central
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Vietnamese

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GitHub repository

  •  56,141 Stars
  •  4,681 Forks
  •  215 Open Issues
  •   Updated Apr 17, 2025 
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Stirling-PDF, and it has gotten 19 likes

Stirling-PDF was added to AlternativeTo by LinuxDoge on May 17, 2023 and this page was last updated Apr 5, 2025.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Overspend7763
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•Apr 5, 2025
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Extremely complete and easy to use, works offline

Top Negative Comment
Darth Caedus
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•Aug 22, 2024
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Can't find the option to compress PDFs, I don't believe it has one.

Overspend7763
•Apr 5, 2025

It has now

TBayAreaPat
•Apr 12, 2025
0

Note that this does have a standard Windows Desktop installation too.. available at GitHub.

What is Stirling-PDF?

A locally hosted powerful PDF editing tool.

  • Full intractable GUI for merging/splitting/rotating/moving PDFs and their pages.
  • Split PDFs into multiple files at specified page numbers or extract all pages as individual files.
  • Merge multiple PDFs together into a single resultant file
  • Convert PDFs to and from images
  • Reorganize PDF pages into different orders.
  • Add/Generate signatures
  • Flatten PDFs
  • Repair PDFs
  • Detect and remove blank pages
  • Compare 2 PDFs and show differences in text
  • Add images to PDFs
  • Rotating PDFs in 90 degree increments.
  • Compressing PDFs to decrease their filesize. (Using OCRMyPDF) -Add and remove passwords
  • Set PDF Permissions
  • Add watermark(s)
  • Convert Any common file to PDF (using LibreOffice)
  • Convert PDF to Word/Powerpoint/Others (using LibreOffice)
  • Extract images from PDF
  • OCR on PDF (Using OCRMyPDF)
  • Edit metadata
  • Dark mode support.
  • Custom download options (see here for example)
  • Parallel file processing and downloads
  • API for integration with external scripts

Technologies used:

  • Spring Boot + Thymeleaf
  • PDFBox
  • LibreOffice for advanced conversions
  • OcrMyPdf
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • Docker
  • PDF.js
  • PDF-LIB.js

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