Trusted by 10% of the Fortune 500

The Self-Hosted PDF Application

Run over 50 powerful PDF tools — locally, securely, and on your own infrastructure.

All Your PDF Tools.
Fully Yours.

Multi Tool

Rotate pages, remove sections, and reorganize layouts — all with one tool.

Compress

Shrink PDFs without losing quality. Ideal for sharing or archiving.

Pipeline

Automate multi-step actions like redact → compress → rename into a single, reusable workflow.

pipeline:
  name: "Redact & Compress"
  steps:
    - redact:
        pattern: "confidential"
    - compress:
        level: "aggressive"
    - rename:
        format: "secure_{original}"

Redact

Black out text, sanitize metadata, and remove comments with full control.

Merge

Combine documents in seconds. No upload limits, no weird layouts.

Open Source.
Enterprise-Grade.

Sid Sijbrandij
Founder and Chairman

"Stirling PDF is the only actively developed open-source web-based PDF editor. With cybersecurity risks becoming more prevalent, today’s users want to be able to inspect the code and they want the option to control their data by self-hosting the software."

10M

Downloads
Across GitHub, Docker, and Community

10%

of the Fortune 500
Used Stirling PDF in the past year

58K

GitHub Stars
The most popular PDF project on GitHub

Trusted by developers around the world.

Diolinux
744K YouTube subscribers

"Stirling PDF gives you a full suite of tools"

Brazil’s largest open-source tech channel explains how to run Stirling PDF on your own server using Docker.

Published September 10, 2024
Viewed 80K+ times
IT-Connect
87K YouTube subscribers

"Stirling PDF - A free PDF toolbox"

Florian Burnel from IT-Connect shows how to self-host Stirling PDF on a Synology NAS for secure, on-prem use.

Published April 6, 2024
Viewed 9K+ times
ApfelCast
63K YouTube subscribers

"Stirling PDF - The Best PDF MultiTool!"

Daniel Klozbücher from IT-focused channel ApfelCast walks through Stirling PDF’s tools in a secure, self-hosted setup.

Published October 5, 2023
Viewed 65K+ times
DB Tech
92K YouTube subscribers

"The Ultimate Self-Hosted PDF Solution"

In this video tutorial, DB Tech demonstrates how to deploy Stirling PDF using Docker.

Published September 27, 2023 
Viewed 30K+ times
Yirsis Hertz
20K YouTube subscribers

"The Ultimate Tool to Edit PDFs"

Mexican Tech YouTuber Yirsis Hertz demonstrates how to deploy Stirling PDF on a personal server using Docker.

Published November 19, 2024
Viewed 15K+ times
Practical IT Solutions by Vikash
2K YouTube subscribers

"Full-featured and free"

Dutch systems engineer Vikash Jhagroe explains why he replaced Acrobat Pro with Stirling PDF.

Published July 27, 2024
Viewed 4K+ times
苔科技MiniMossTech
2K YouTube subscribers

"Swiss Army Knife in the PDF Tool Industry"

MiniMossTech shows how to self-host Stirling PDF using Docker, walking through setup and popular tools.

Published January 4, 2024
Viewed 2K+ times