PDF tools
Stirling PDF
Every PDF tool in one self-hosted web app.
open source self-hostable Stirling Tools Ltd. · GBMerge, split, compress, sign, OCR, convert — locally, from a British company.
Website ↗ Source ↗ Plan “PDF tools” with it
How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | Stirling Tools Ltd. (GB) |
|---|---|
| Licence | MIT |
| Self-hosting footprint | 512 MB RAM · 0.5 vCPU · 1 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Adobe Acrobat, Smallpdf |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 91,244 stars · updated 2026-09-03 · Docker, Java |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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