Stirling-PDF is a fully-featured, self-hosted PDF utility tool. It allows you to perform highly sensitive document edits, signing, splits, and merges locally in your browser, ensuring your corporate or personal documents are never exposed to third-party web portals.
Why Host Stirling-PDF?
- 100% Privacy: No tracking, no external server calls. All processing is either done fully in the client browser or safely within your Docker container.
- Incredible Feature Set: Convert images to PDF, convert PDF to Word/PowerPoint, OCR text recognition, redact text, add watermarks, and digitally sign documents!
- Extremely Clean UI: Offers a beautiful, responsive dark-themed grid of easy-to-use tools.
Getting Started
Stirling-PDF is highly optimized to run as a single Docker container. Spun up on a $6/month droplet, you can share it with your entire team or company, instantly replacing expensive individual Adobe Acrobat licenses!