Office Suites & Documents · United Kingdom (GB)

Stirling-PDF

Caixa de ferramentas PDF tudo-em-um, robusta e 100% self-hosted em Docker.

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The switch

Adobe Acrobat→Stirling-PDFalso replaces Smallpdf (cloud)

About

O Stirling-PDF é uma aplicação web open source que centraliza dezenas de utilitários para documentos PDF: conversão, junção, divisão, rotação, compressão, remoção de passwords e OCR. Funciona de forma completamente autónoma e offline no servidor local, impedindo que documentos confidenciais sejam enviados para servidores de terceiros.

Why we recommend it

Open source (MIT)
Self-hosted = full data control
50+ tools

EU vs USA

Stirling-PDF vs Adobe Acrobat

Side-by-side on jurisdiction, data residency, and the rules that decide who can actually read your data.

Criteria

🇪🇺 Stirling-PDF

🇺🇸 Adobe Acrobat

Headquarters

United Kingdom

United States

Jurisdiction

United States (US CLOUD Act)

Data location

Self-host (your servers)

United States

GDPR-native

Yes

CLOUD Act / FISA exposed

Yes

Ad tracking

Yes

End-to-end encryption

Open source

Yes

Ownership

Stirling Tools Ltd / Projeto Comunitário

US Corporation

Founded

2023

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