Stirling-PDF is a robust, locally hosted web-based PDF manipulation tool using Docker. It enables you to carry out various operations on PDF files, including splitting, merging, converting, reorganizing, adding images, rotating, compressing, and more. This locally hosted web application has evolved to encompass a comprehensive set of features, addressing all your PDF requirements.
Stirling-PDF is a robust locally hosted web-based tool designed for comprehensive PDF manipulation, enabling users to perform over 50 operations such as splitting, merging, converting, reorganizing, adding images, rotating, compressing, and more. Built on Docker, it provides a secure and efficient platform for handling PDF files entirely within your environment.
Key Features:
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Stirling-PDF
Stirling-PDF is a robust, locally hosted web-based PDF manipulation tool using Docker. It enables you to carry out various operations on PDF files, including splitting, merging, converting, reorganizing, adding images, rotating, compressing, and more. This locally hosted web application has evolved to encompass a comprehensive set of features, addressing all your PDF requirements.
All files and PDFs exist either exclusively on the client side, reside in server memory only during task execution, or temporarily reside in a file solely for the execution of the task. Any file downloaded by the user will have been deleted from the server by that point.
Over 50 PDF operations including advanced editing, conversion, and automation.
Parallel processing for faster file tasks and downloads.
Dark mode support for enhanced user experience.
Customizable pipelines to automate workflows across multiple features.
OCR capabilities (using Tesseract) for extracting text from scanned documents.
Advanced security features like password protection, watermarking, and PDF certification.
Multi-language support with options in over 40 languages.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for professionals, teams, and organizations requiring reliable and secure PDF management. Stirling-PDF enhances efficiency by offering a comprehensive suite of tools under one interface, customizable to meet specific workflow needs while ensuring data security through local hosting. It supports scalable solutions for both individual users and enterprise environments, making it a versatile choice for all PDF-related tasks.
Installable via winget, Stirling-PDF is a powerful solution tailored to streamline your PDF operations with ease and precision.
Enterprise features like SSO (see here for documentation)
PDF Features
Page Operations
View and modify PDFs - View multi-page PDFs with custom viewing, sorting, and searching. Plus, on-page edit features like annotating, drawing, and adding text and images. (Using PDF.js with Joxit and Liberation fonts)
Full interactive GUI for merging/splitting/rotating/moving PDFs and their pages
Merge multiple PDFs into a single resultant file
Split PDFs into multiple files at specified page numbers or extract all pages as individual files
Reorganize PDF pages into different orders
Rotate PDFs in 90-degree increments
Remove pages
Multi-page layout (format PDFs into a multi-paged page)
Scale page contents size by set percentage
Adjust contrast
Crop PDF
Auto-split PDF (with physically scanned page dividers)
Extract page(s)
Convert PDF to a single page
Overlay PDFs on top of each other
PDF to a single page
Split PDF by sections
Conversion Operations
Convert PDFs to and from images
Convert any common file to PDF (using LibreOffice)
Convert PDF to Word/PowerPoint/others (using LibreOffice)
Convert HTML to PDF
Convert PDF to XML
Convert PDF to CSV
URL to PDF
Markdown to PDF
Security & Permissions
Add and remove passwords
Change/set PDF permissions
Add watermark(s)
Certify/sign PDFs
Sanitize PDFs
Auto-redact text
Other Operations
Add/generate/write signatures
Split by Size or PDF
Repair PDFs
Detect and remove blank pages
Compare two PDFs and show differences in text
Add images to PDFs
Compress PDFs to decrease their filesize (using qpdf)
Extract images from PDF
Remove images from PDF
Extract images from scans
Remove annotations
Add page numbers
Auto-rename files by detecting PDF header text
OCR on PDF (using Tesseract OCR)
PDF/A conversion (using LibreOffice)
Edit metadata
Flatten PDFs
Get all information on a PDF to view or export as JSON
Stirling PDF offers an Enterprise edition of its software. This is the same great software but with added features, support and comforts.
Check out our Enterprise docs
