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Stirling PDF

Powerful locally hosted web-based PDF toolkit

Document Management ★ 89.1k stars Easy setup MIT

Stirling PDF is a self-hosted web application that provides a comprehensive set of PDF manipulation tools. It can merge, split, convert, compress, OCR, and edit PDFs entirely on your own server.

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Key features

  • Dozens of PDF tools
  • OCR support
  • Convert to and from PDF
  • Runs entirely locally

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Keeps documents private
  • Huge range of features

Trade-offs

  • Not a full document archive
  • Java memory footprint

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