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Stirling PDF

Locally hosted web application offering an interactive GUI to merge, split, reorganize, convert, compress, watermark, secure, sign, flatten, repair, extract images, detect blanks, apply OCR, set permissions, and enable file processing or API integration for PDFs.

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Cost / License

  • Freemium
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Online
  • Self-Hosted
  • Cloudron
  • Docker Hub
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Features

Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Support for Themes

Features

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

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Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
very_unfortunate
0

Can remove metadata from PDF files, compress them, is open source and has next to no tracking (only usage report iirc)

Top Negative Comment
Darth Caedus
0

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

Overspend7763

It has now

coolgm050
0

Best thing ever, I made an account to give 5 stars, I dozens of apps and NONE of them had an free editor, except this one ❤️❤️❤️

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aseixas
-2

Used it for years, unfortunately it's been progressively enshittified, culminating in what's now the only way to interact with it, through ChatGPT.

very_unfortunate

what? that's not true at all

TBayAreaPat
0

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

Overspend7763
0

Extremely complete and easy to use, works offline

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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

Stirling PDF information

  • Developed by

    US flagStirling-PDF, Inc.

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    free version with limited functionality.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.7

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  • 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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  •  8,862 Forks
  •  624 Open Issues
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