Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

#1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere

Productivity & self-hostedJava#docker#java#pdf#pdf-converter#pdf-manipulation

3.5 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

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

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

48 stars so far today, about 59 expected by the end of the day.
About 280 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 92,504
Stars in a day: 58
Forks: 8,843
Issues and pull requests: 7,769
Watchers: 312
Language: Java
Latest release: v2.14.3 · August 6, 2026
Created: January 27, 2023
Last push: September 18, 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.

Spotted in

September 18, 2026GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #12, +128 stars
September 17, 2026GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #12, +106 stars

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