📄 Stirling PDF: The Ultimate Open-Source PDF Platform
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🔥 What is Stirling PDF?
Stirling PDF is a powerful, open-source PDF editing and management platform. Use it as a desktop app, in your browser, or deploy it on your own servers with a private API. Edit, sign, redact, convert, and automate your PDFs without ever sending documents to external services. Complete privacy and full control.
🚀 Key Features
- 🌍 Everywhere you work — Desktop client, browser UI, and self-hosted server with a private API.
- 🛠️ 50+ PDF tools — Edit, merge, split, sign, redact, convert, OCR, compress, and much more.
- ⚡ Automation & workflows — No-code pipelines directly in the UI, with APIs to process millions of PDFs.
- 🏢 Enterprise-grade — SSO, auditing, and flexible on-premise deployments.
- 💻 Developer platform — REST APIs available for nearly all tools to integrate Stirling PDF into your existing systems.
- 🌐 40+ languages support — Global interface for users and international teams.
🚀 Quick Start
Getting Stirling PDF up and running is dead simple. With a single Docker command:
docker run -p 8080:8080 docker.stirlingpdf.com/stirlingtools/stirling-pdf
Then open your browser to http://localhost:8080 and you're done.
For desktop and Kubernetes installation options, check out the Full Documentation.
📊 Why Choose It?
- 🔒 Total privacy — Everything stays on your server, no external data.
- 🤖 Automation — Visual no-code workflows and REST APIs for integration.
- ⚡ Performance — Built to process large volumes of documents efficiently.
- 🏆 Active community — Discord support, open-source contributions, and continuous updates.