Stirling-PDF

Stirling-PDF is a powerful, self-hosted PDF toolkit with over 50 functions for editing, converting, and managing PDF files - completely offline and privacy-friendly.

Alternative to Adobe Acrobat

Stirling-PDF offers almost all features of Adobe Acrobat, but runs on your own server and doesn't send data to third parties.

Installation

Add the following template to your docker-compose.yml and then run ei23 dc.

Template

  stirling-pdf:
    container_name: stirling-pdf
    image: frooodle/s-pdf:latest
    ports:
      - 2223:8080
    volumes:
      - ./volumes/stirling-pdf/trainingData:/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/5/tessdata
      - ./volumes/stirling-pdf/extraConfigs:/configs
    environment:
      - DOCKER_ENABLE_SECURITY=false

Features

Page Operations

Extract, merge, reorder pages
Rotate and scale pages
Add/remove blank pages

Conversion

PDF ↔ Word/Excel/PowerPoint
PDF ↔ Images (JPG, PNG)
HTML/URL → PDF
Markdown → PDF

Editing

Add/edit text
Insert images
Watermarks
Stamps
Signatures

Security

Encrypt/decrypt PDFs
Set/remove passwords
Configure permissions
Verify digital signatures

OCR (Text Recognition)

Make scans searchable
Extract text from images
Multi-language OCR (including German)

Notes

Accessible at http://[IP]:2223
All processing is done locally - no data goes outside
For OCR, language data is stored in trainingData
Very resource-efficient