Productivity · United Kingdom (GB)
Stirling PDF
Self-hosted, open-source PDF toolkit with 50+ operations.
The switch
Adobe Acrobat→Stirling PDFalso replaces Smallpdf (cloud)
About
Stirling PDF runs locally or on your own server: merge, split, OCR, sign, redact PDFs without sending files to a third party.
Why we recommend it
- Open source (MIT)
- Self-hosted = full data control
- 50+ tools
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