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Stirling PDF - The Open-Source PDF Platform

Stirling PDF is a powerful, open-source PDF editing platform. Run it as a personal desktop app, in the browser, or deploy it on your own servers with a private API. Edit, sign, redact, convert, and automate PDFs without sending documents to external services.


  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  


!Stirling PDF - Dashboard

 Key Capabilities

- 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 more.
- Automation & workflows - No-code pipelines direct in UI with APIs to process millions of PDFs.
- Enterprise‑grade - SSO, auditing, and flexible on‑prem deployments.
- Developer platform - REST APIs available for nearly all tools to integrate into your existing systems.
- Global UI - Interface available in 40+ languages.

For a full feature list, see the docs: https://docs.stirlingpdf.com

 Quick Start

bash
docker run -p 8080:8080 docker.stirlingpdf.com/stirlingtools/stirling-pdf


Then open: http://localhost:8080

For full installation options (including desktop and Kubernetes), see our Documentation Guide.

 Resources

- Documentation
- Homepage
- API Docs
- Server Plan & Enterprise

 Support

- Community: Discord
- Bug Reports: GitHub Issues

 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

This project uses Task as a unified command runner for all build, dev, and test commands. Run task dev to get started running the editor, run task to see the most common commands, or see the Developer Guide for full details.

For adding translations, see the Translation Guide.

 License

Stirling PDF is open-core. See LICENSE for details.

Top issues

Discussions

Latest release

Stirling Office Convert (still beta) has been upgraded. You can also now pick it as the converter in lots of other tools such as Email, HTML, Markdown and ebooks to PDF plus PDF to HTML/Markdown/XML/EPUB/AZW3, and PDF/A. Please compare it with the existing converter and let us know!

Our roadmap is to turn Office Convert on by default next week, and then, if no changes are required, fully remove LibreOffice and other dependencies the week after. So now is the best time to try it and report (And send example files) any conversions that don't look correct!

Other changes are:
- SSO auto-log