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

19 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 5 stories, 14 comments · first 2023-05-13 · latest 2026-04-19

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  1. Open-source, free version of this is Stirling PDF https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF where you can do very accurate OCR while keep the formatting.
  2. Stirling PDF https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF is a free self-hosted PDF tool that can do very accurate OCR while keeping the formatting.
  3. …the best ones out there. Open source and has been in development for a couple of years, at least - https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/
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    Stirling PDF 2.0
    story by pentagrama · 2025-11-28 · 0 comments
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    Stirling PDF v2.0 Released
    story by chromehearts · 2025-11-27 · 0 comments
  6. How does that compare to https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF ?
  7. …time to time it's incredible helpfull to edit PDFs without sending them to a third party. - [0] https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
  8. Stirling PDF? https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
  9. …my PDF needs. I do host it in my network and not accessible from internet for better privacy. [1] https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
  10. Take a look at https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF This might be the tool you are looking for. Locally hosted too
  11. …any pdf needs and have never needed any other service. Open source gold standard for any pdf needs: https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
  12. …proxy with wild card TLS certs setup probably helped streamline the networking side of things. https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
  13. Well it was developed initially by ChatGPT. First file I open I see repeated comments. https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/7f577a60...
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    Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
    story by gitinit · 2024-05-02 · 103 comments
  15. My use-case was easier than yours (OCRing scans of microfiche of typewritten pages) but I found this https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF incredibly handy. I still had to write a bit of Python, mostly for levelling and centering…
  16. …[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23238862 [2] https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF [3] https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF#technologies-used
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    Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
    story by alexzeitler · 2023-12-25 · 231 comments
  18. Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but take a look at Stirling-PDF. https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF
    comment by pelalmqvist · 2023-10-24 · in SumatraPDF Reader
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    Stirling-PDF: open-source web based PDF manipulation tool
    story by thunderbong · 2023-05-13 · 0 comments