Categories / Document Management
Stirling-PDF
Local hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as merging, splitting, file conversions and OCR.
Self-hosted alternative to
- GitHub stars
- 95,525
- Repository activity
- 30 October 2026
- Latest release
- v3.2.2, 24 October 2026
- Health
- Active From the repository record in this build
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Platforms
- Docker, Java
- Categories
- Document Management
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