stirling-pdf-tools

name	stirling-pdf-tools
description	Comprehensive PDF toolkit with Stirling PDF
version	1.0.0
tags	["pdf","documents","ocr","conversion"]

Stirling PDF – Self-Hosted PDF Toolkit

Stirling PDF is a locally hosted, Docker-based web application for performing various operations on PDF files — merge, split, convert, OCR, sign, watermark, and more.

• GitHub: github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF (60 000+ ⭐)
• License: MIT
• Security: Self-contained Docker image. No external calls. No malware.

Environment Variables

Variable	Description
{{STIRLING_URL}}	Base URL of the Stirling PDF instance

Usage Examples

Merge PDFs

curl -s -X POST "{{STIRLING_URL}}/api/v1/general/merge-pdfs" \
  -F "fileInput=@file1.pdf" \
  -F "fileInput=@file2.pdf" \
  -o merged.pdf

Convert PDF to images

curl -s -X POST "{{STIRLING_URL}}/api/v1/convert/pdf/img" \
  -F "fileInput=@document.pdf" \
  -F "imageFormat=png" \
  -o images.zip

OCR a scanned PDF

curl -s -X POST "{{STIRLING_URL}}/api/v1/misc/ocr-pdf" \
  -F "fileInput=@scanned.pdf" \
  -F "languages=eng" \
  -o ocr_result.pdf

AI Agent Tips

• All processing happens locally — no data leaves the server.
• Supports 30+ PDF operations via API endpoints.
• OCR uses Tesseract; supports multiple languages.
• Deploy with Docker for zero-config operation.