This is a powerful locally hosted web based PDF manipulation tool using docker that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as splitting merging, converting, reorganizing, adding images, rotating, compressing, and more. This locally hosted web application started as a 100% ChatGPT-made application and has evolved to include a wide range of features to handle all your PDF needs.
Stirling PDF makes no outbound calls for any record keeping or tracking.
All files and PDFs are either purely client side, in server memory only during the execution of the task or within a temporay file only for execution of the task. Any file which has been downloaded by the user will have already been deleted from the server by that time.
Feel free to request any features or bug fixes either in github issues or our Discord
- Full interactive GUI for merging/splitting/rotating/moving PDFs and their pages.
- Split PDFs into multiple files at specified page numbers or extract all pages as individual files.
- Merge multiple PDFs together into a single resultant file
- Convert PDFs to and from images
- Reorganize PDF pages into different orders.
- Add/Generate signatures
- Format PDFs into a multi-paged page
- Scale page contents size by set %
- Adjust Contrast
- Crop PDF
- Auto Split PDF (With physically scanned page dividers)
- Flatten PDFs
- Repair PDFs
- Detect and remove blank pages
- Compare 2 PDFs and show differences in text
- Add images to PDFs
- Rotating PDFs in 90 degree increments.
- Compressing PDFs to decrease their filesize. (Using OCRMyPDF)
- Add and remove passwords
- Set PDF Permissions
- Add watermark(s)
- Convert Any common file to PDF (using LibreOffice)
- Convert PDF to Word/Powerpoint/Others (using LibreOffice)
- Convert HTML to PDF
- URL to PDF
- Extract images from PDF
- Extract images from Scans
- Add page numbers
- Auto rename file by detecting PDF header text
- OCR on PDF (Using OCRMyPDF)
- PDF/A conversion (Using OCRMyPDF)
- Edit metadata
- Dark mode support.
- Custom download options (see here for example)
- Parallel file processing and downloads
- API for integration with external scripts
For a overview of the tasks and the technology each uses please view groups.md Hosted instance/demo of the app can be seen here hosted by the team at adminforge.de
- Spring Boot + Thymeleaf
- PDFBox
- IText7
- LibreOffice for advanced conversions
- OcrMyPdf
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Docker
- PDF.js
- PDF-LIB.js
Please view https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/LocalRunGuide.md
https://hub.docker.com/r/frooodle/s-pdf
Stirling PDF has 3 different versions, a Full version, Lite, and ultra-Lite. Depending on the types of features you use you may want a smaller image to save on space.
To see what the different versions offer please look at our version mapping
For people that don't mind about space optimization just use the latest tag.
Docker Run
docker run -d \
-p 8080:8080 \
-v /location/of/trainingData:/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata \
-v /location/of/extraConfigs:/configs \
--name stirling-pdf \
frooodle/s-pdf:latest
Can also add these for customisation but are not required
-v /location/of/customFiles:/customFiles \
Docker Compose
version: '3.3'
services:
stirling-pdf:
image: frooodle/s-pdf:latest
ports:
- '8080:8080'
volumes:
- /location/of/trainingData:/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata #Required for extra OCR languages
- /location/of/extraConfigs:/configs
# - /location/of/customFiles:/customFiles/
Please view https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/HowToUseOCR.md
Stirling PDF currently supports 16!
- English (English) (en_GB)
- Arabic (العربية) (ar_AR)
- German (Deutsch) (de_DE)
- French (Français) (fr_FR)
- Spanish (Español) (es_ES)
- Chinese (简体中文) (zh_CN)
- Catalan (Català) (ca_CA)
- Italian (Italiano) (it_IT)
- Swedish (Svenska) (sv_SE)
- Polish (Polski) (pl_PL)
- Romanian (Română) (ro_RO)
- Korean (한국어) (ko_KR)
- Portuguese Brazilian (Português) (pt_BR)
- Russian (Русский) (ru_RU)
- Basque (Euskara) (eu_ES)
- Japanese (日本語) (ja_JP)
If you want to add your own language to Stirling-PDF please refer https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/HowToAddNewLanguage.md
And please create a PR to merge it back in so others can use it!
- Open a web browser and navigate to
https://localhost:8080/
- Use the application by following the instructions on the website.
Stirling PDF allows easy customization of the app. Includes things like
- Custom application name
- Custom slogans, icons, images, and even custom HTML (via file overrides)
There are two options for this, either using the generated settings file settings.yml
This file is located in the /configs
directory and follows standard YAML formatting
Environment variables are also supported and would override the settings file For example in the settings.yml you have
system:
defaultLocale: 'en-US'
To have this via an environment variable you would have SYSTEM_DEFAULTLOCALE
The Current list of settings is
security:
enableLogin: false # set to 'true' to enable login
initialLogin:
username: 'username' # Specify the initial username for first boot (e.g. 'admin')
password: 'password' # Specify the initial password for first boot (e.g. 'password123')
csrfDisabled: true
system:
defaultLocale: 'en-US' # Set the default language (e.g. 'de-DE', 'fr-FR', etc)
googlevisibility: false # 'true' to allow Google visibility (via robots.txt), 'false' to disallow
customStaticFilePath: '/customFiles/static/' # Directory path for custom static files
#ui:
# appName: exampleAppName # Application's visible name
# homeDescription: I am a description # Short description or tagline shown on homepage.
# appNameNavbar: navbarName # Name displayed on the navigation bar
endpoints:
toRemove: [] # List endpoints to disable (e.g. ['img-to-pdf', 'remove-pages'])
groupsToRemove: [] # List groups to disable (e.g. ['LibreOffice'])
metrics:
enabled: true # 'true' to enable Info APIs (`/api/*`) endpoints, 'false' to disable
- Endpoints. Currently, the endpoints ENDPOINTS_TO_REMOVE and GROUPS_TO_REMOVE can include comma separate lists of endpoints and groups to disable as example ENDPOINTS_TO_REMOVE=img-to-pdf,remove-pages would disable both image-to-pdf and remove pages, GROUPS_TO_REMOVE=LibreOffice Would disable all things that use LibreOffice. You can see a list of all endpoints and groups here
- customStaticFilePath. Customise static files such as the app logo by placing files in the /customFiles/static/ directory. An example of customising app logo is placing a /customFiles/static/favicon.svg to override current SVG. This can be used to change any images/icons/css/fonts/js etc in Stirling-PDF
SYSTEM_ROOTURIPATH
ie set topdf-app
to Set the application's root URI tplocalhost:8080/pdf-app
SYSTEM_CONNECTIONTIMEOUTMINUTES
to set custom connection timeout valuesDOCKER_ENABLE_SECURITY
to tell docker to download security jar (required as true for auth login)
For those wanting to use Stirling-PDFs backend API to link with their own custom scripting to edit PDFs you can view all existing API documentation here or navigate to /swagger-ui/index.html of your stirling-pdf instance for your versions documentation (Or by following the API button in your settings of Stirling-PDF)
- User must have the folder ./configs volumed within docker so that it is retained during updates.
- Docker uses must download the security jar version by setting
DOCKER_ENABLE_SECURITY
totrue
in environment variables. - Now the initial user must be generated. Navigate to your settings.yaml and configure your security settings along with the username and password (only required on the first boot to create the initial user, ignored after.). Alternatively, you can set these via the environment variables
SECURITY_ENABLELOGIN : true
SECURITY_INITIALLOGIN_USERNAME: username
SECURITY_INITIALLOGIN_PASSWORD: password
Once the above has been done, on restart, a new stirling-pdf-DB.mv.db will show if everything worked.
When you login to Stirling PDF you will be redirected to /login page to login with those credentials. After login everything should function as normal
To access your account settings go to Account settings in the settings cog menu (top right in navbar) This Account settings menu is also where you find your API key.
To add new users go to the bottom of Account settings and hit 'Admin Settings', here you can add new users. The different roles mentioned within this are for rate limiting. This is a Work in progress which will be expanding on more in future
For API usage you must provide a header with 'X-API-Key' and the associated API key for that user.
- Progress bar/Tracking
- Full custom logic pipelines to combine multiple operations together.
- Folder support with auto scanning to perform operations on
- Redact text (Via UI)
- Add Forms
- Annotations
- Multi page layout (Stich PDF pages together) support x rows y columns and custom page sizing
- Fill forms mannual and automatic
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