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stirling-tools/stirling-pdf An app that keeps running until you stop it

Open PDF tools on your computer to merge, split and edit documents

  • Open source
  • Runs on your own computer
  • Windows, Mac or Linux
  • Tested 4 Nov 2026

You start

Open the app and add your content there.

You get

  • PDF tools in your browser
What can it reach?
  • The internet. The local web page uses a container network that can reach the internet. Its address is published on loopback.
How was it tested?

Run on clean Intel and AMD and Apple silicon and ARM machines on 4 Nov 2026. Its check passed on a known sample and rejected deliberately broken results.

This checks the job this page describes, not every feature of the original project.

Project, licence and recipe files

stirling-tools/stirling-pdf on GitHub

Licence. Upstream open-core licence; includes separately licensed proprietary components. Uses the unmodified upstream distribution.

The 3 recipe files

Recipe revision 42a0864a1be5, from 684608d14377.

Documents and text

Convert, read and proofread PDFs, Office files and text.

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