Stirling-PDF
Alternative to Adobe Acrobat
Stirling-PDF is an all-in-one web tool for PDF operations. It performs 40+ PDF operations including merge, split, convert, compress, OCR, and sign directly in the browser without sending data to external servers.
- 40+ PDF operations including merge, split, rotate, page deletion, and reordering
- Format conversion between PDF and images, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- OCR text extraction from image PDFs via Tesseract OCR integration
- Compression for PDF file size optimization
- Signatures for adding electronic signatures and signature fields to PDFs
- Security for adding or removing password protection and PDF encryption
Built with Java and Spring, Stirling-PDF is self-hosted via Docker. It serves as an Adobe Acrobat alternative for users who want to keep all PDF operations completely local.
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