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Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

Productivity & self-hostedJava#docker#java#pdf#pdf-converter#pdf-manipulation
Total stars
93,175
Today
+16
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#1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere

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About the project

Open-source PDF platform for editing, signing, redacting, converting, OCR and compressing documents. Runs as a desktop app, in the browser, or self-hosted with a private API, without sending documents to external services.

Useful for
  • Deploy a self-hosted Docker server to process PDFs without external services
  • Build a no-code pipeline for bulk PDF conversion and compression via the UI
  • Integrate the REST API to automate signing and OCR in an existing system

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3.4 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 28, 2026, 10:29 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

0125250August 6, 2026November 3, 2026

Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.

Why it’s trending

  • 16 stars so far today, about 54 expected by the end of the day.
  • About 147 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Measured growth: the last 7 completed days

The full 7-day window is unavailable; no weekly total or comparison is calculated.

Daily measurements · UTC
October 27, 2026
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Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: September 28, 2026, 10:28 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →

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Numbers

Total stars
93,175
Today
+16 stars on 2026-09-28 (UTC), ≈ 54 by evening
Forks
9,857
Issues and pull requests
7,909
Watchers
312
Language
Java
Latest release
v3.0.1 · September 26, 2026
Created
January 27, 2023
Last push
September 28, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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