# Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

> 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.

- Magnitude: 3.4 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 93,175 total · +16 stars on 2026-09-28 (UTC), ≈ 54 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Productivity & self-hosted · Language: Java · Created: 2023-01-27 · Last push: 2026-09-28
- GitHub: https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF · Homepage: https://stirling.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

## 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

## Why it’s here

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

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 9,857
- Issues and pull requests: 7,909
- Watchers: 312
- Average over the last week: 72 per day
- Usual pace: 94 per day
- Latest release: v3.0.1 (2026-09-26)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-05 … 2026-11-03: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 12 days

09-17 4.0, 09-18 3.6, 09-19 3.6, 09-20 3.5, 09-21 3.5, 09-22 2.9, 09-23 3.5, 09-24 3.4, 09-25 3.3, 09-26 3.4, 09-27 3.4, 09-28 3.4

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-28 10:29 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.