Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
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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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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.
comment by zshn25 · 2026-04-19 · in Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th -
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.
comment by zshn25 · 2026-04-19 · in Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th -
…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/
comment by mattpogue · 2026-01-19 · in Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end) -
How does that compare to https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF ?
comment by byyll · 2025-08-03 · in Got tired of bad PDF WebApp so we made a Free, Open-Sourced, Private Alternative -
…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
comment by thi2 · 2025-04-12 · in Open source and self hostable/private file converter -
Stirling PDF? https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
comment by batrat · 2025-03-02 · in Ask HN: Where are the good Markdown to PDF tools (that meet these requirements)? -
…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
comment by elashri · 2025-01-03 · in A free, unlimited online PDF converter with Privacy focus -
Take a look at https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF This might be the tool you are looking for. Locally hosted too
comment by bl4ckneon · 2024-07-18 · in Show HN: I made a privacy-friendly and free image, audio and video converter -
…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
comment by carte_blanche · 2024-05-15 · in I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software -
…proxy with wild card TLS certs setup probably helped streamline the networking side of things. https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
comment by darken · 2024-05-13 · in I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software -
Well it was developed initially by ChatGPT. First file I open I see repeated comments. https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/7f577a60...
comment by exac · 2024-05-03 · in Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool -
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…
comment by flir · 2024-04-29 · in A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949) -
…[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23238862 [2] https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF [3] https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF#technologies-used
comment by nadermx · 2023-12-26 · in Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs -
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