Stirling-PDF
★ 90.4kApache License 2.0Open Core — Some Features PaidSingle Container — single container — minimal hosting footprintDocker · K8s · SourceNo external DB8 documented maintainers
About
Stirling PDF is an open-source PDF platform aimed at individuals, teams, and organizations that need to edit, transform, and automate documents without sending them to outside services. It can be...
Community Ratings
Ease of Setup
5.0
Documentation
5.0
Resource Usage
5.0
Feature Completeness
5.0
Paywall Fairness
2.0
Maintenance
5.0
Community
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Features
- PDF editing
- Merge PDFs
- Split PDFs
- Sign PDFs
- Redact PDFs
- Convert PDFs
- OCR
- Compress PDFs
- No-code workflows
- REST APIs
Details
- Last Updated
- Aug 26, 2026
- Created
- Jan 27, 2023
- Install Methods
- dockerkubernetessource
- Requirements
- Docker
- Authentication
- oidc-sso
- API
- REST
- Runtime / Stack
- DockerJava
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓Single Container — minimal hosting footprintsingle container
Docker Compose
1 service
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (3 volumes)
docker/compose/docker-compose.yml · @ 789be2d · scanned Jun 5, 2026
services:
stirling-pdf:
build:
context: ../..
dockerfile: docker/embedded/Dockerfile
container_name: stirling-pdf
restart: unless-stopped
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", "curl -f http://localhost:8080$${SYSTEM_ROOTURIPATH:-''}/api/v1/info/status | grep -q 'UP'"]
interval: 5s
timeout: 10s
retries: 16
ports:
- "8080:8080"
volumes:
- ../../stirling/latest/data:/usr/share/tessdata:rw
- ../../stirling/latest/config:/configs:rw
- ../../stirling/latest/logs:/logs:rw
environment:
DISABLE_ADDITIONAL_FEATURES: "true"
# ...
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