alam00000/bentopdfGitHub
a full-featured self-hosted PDF toolkit, choose it when you prefer an AGPL-licensed alternative to Stirling.
The Privacy First PDF Toolkit
- 14.7k
- JavaScript
- AGPL-3.0
active2mo ago
Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF Alternatives
PDF manipulation toolkit
Stirling-PDF is a self-hosted web/desktop platform with 50+ tools for editing, converting, and automating PDFs.
Drop-in peers
Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.
Same job, different approach
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
PDFCraftTool/pdfcraftGitHub
a client-side browser toolkit, choose it when you need PDF tools without any server upload.
PDFCraft is a free, privacy-focused PDF toolkit that runs entirely in your browser. With 90+ professional tools, you can edit, convert, merge, split, and secure your PDF files without ever uploading them to a server.
- 8.3k
- TypeScript
- AGPL-3.0
active3mo ago
Older generation, or narrower
An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.
24eme/signaturepdfGitHub
a narrow web app for signing and basic page ops, choose it when that's all you need.
Free open-source web software for signing PDF (alone or with others) and also organize pages, edit metadata and compress pdf
- 825
- JavaScript
- AGPL-3.0
active2mo ago
Swati4star/Images-to-PDFGitHub
a simple Android app for image-to-PDF conversion, choose it for mobile-only conversion.
An app to convert images to PDF file!
- 1.3k
- Java
- GPL-3.0
slowing9mo ago
mrmn2/PdfDingGitHub
a lighter self-hosted PDF manager/editor, choose it when you want a simpler interface with basic editing.
Selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices.
- 1.9k
- Python
- AGPL-3.0
active2mo ago
jzillmann/pdf-to-markdownGitHub
a narrow PDF-to-Markdown converter, choose it for that single conversion task.
A PDF to Markdown converter
- 1.7k
- JavaScript
- MIT
active7mo ago
ShizukuIchi/pdf-editorGitHub
a narrow offline browser PDF editor, choose it for quick annotations without a server.
Offline PDF editor. Add images, signatures, text to PDF in your browser. 🚀
- 1.9k
- JavaScript
- MIT
dormant2.6y ago
MarkPDFdown/markpdfdownGitHub
a narrow LLM-based PDF-to-Markdown converter, choose it for high-quality conversion.
A high-quality PDF to Markdown tool based on large language model visual recognition. 一款基于大模型视觉识别的高质量PDF转Markdown工具
- 2.2k
- Python
- Apache-2.0
slowing9mo ago
End-user tools
Does the same job, but ships as an app. Useful to a person, not swappable into a codebase.
ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditorsGitHub
a full office suite with PDF editing, choose it when you need documents and spreadsheets alongside PDFs.
Open-source office suite pack that comprises all the tools you need to work with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, and PDF forms on Windows, Linux, and macOS
- 5.3k
- AGPL-3.0
active5mo ago
DDULDDUCK/every-pdfGitHub
a cross-platform desktop PDF toolkit, choose it when you prefer a native app over a self-hosted web service.
✍️ A powerful, all-in-one desktop PDF toolkit to edit, convert, merge, and secure your documents. Built with Electron, Next.js, and Python.
- 1.2k
- TypeScript
- MIT
active5mo ago
JakubMelka/PDF4QTGitHub
a native desktop PDF editor, choose it when you need high-performance desktop rendering.
Open source PDF editor.
- 1.5k
- C++
- MIT
active2mo ago
wmjordan/PDFPatcherGitHub
a Windows desktop PDF toolbox, choose it for deep bookmark and metadata editing.
PDF补丁丁——PDF工具箱，可以编辑书签、剪裁旋转页面、解除限制、提取或合并文档，探查文档结构，提取图片、转成图片等等
- 12.6k
- C#
- none
active2mo ago
SteveTheKiller/KillerPDFGitHub
a Windows desktop PDF editor, choose it for a native GUI without a server.
Free and open-source PDF editor for Windows. View, annotate, OCR, merge, split, edit text, draw, sign, fill forms, print, flatten, and open password-protected PDFs without a subscription. Install or run portable. GPLv3
- 3.6k
- C#
- GPL-3.0
active2mo ago
Listed as an alternative to
These projects were analysed and named Stirling-PDF among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how Stirling-PDF rates them is a separate judgement, made when Stirling-PDF is analysed in its own right.
alam00000/bentopdfGitHub
calls Stirling-PDF “Server-side Java PDF web app; choose it if you need a self-hosted PDF tool that works on any device without relying on browser WASM processing.”
The Privacy First PDF Toolkit
14.7kJavaScriptactive
PDFCraftTool/pdfcraftGitHub
calls Stirling-PDF “self-hosted web app with server-side processing; choose if you want multi-user access or server-side integration.”
PDFCraft is a free, privacy-focused PDF toolkit that runs entirely in your browser. With 90+ professional tools, you can edit, convert, merge, split, and secure your PDF files without ever uploading them to a server.
8.3kTypeScriptactive
SteveTheKiller/KillerPDFGitHub
calls Stirling-PDF “Self-hostable web app works across devices, but requires running a server.”
Free and open-source PDF editor for Windows. View, annotate, OCR, merge, split, edit text, draw, sign, fill forms, print, flatten, and open password-protected PDFs without a subscription. Install or run portable. GPLv3
3.6kC#active
run-llama/liteparseGitHub
calls Stirling-PDF “Web-based PDF editor/manager; choose it for browser-based PDF manipulation.”
A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser
12.2kRustactive
foliojs/pdfkitGitHub
calls Stirling-PDF “An end-user web application for editing/manipulating PDFs, not an embeddable generation library.”
A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser
10.7kJavaScriptactive
pymupdf/PyMuPDFGitHub
calls Stirling-PDF “Choose for a user-facing web application to manipulate PDFs (split, merge, compress) through a GUI, not a library.”
PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
10.5kPythonactive
py-pdf/pypdfGitHub
calls Stirling-PDF “Web-based PDF editor application; use for interactive editing, not as a library.”
A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
10.2kPythonactive
pdfcpu/pdfcpuGitHub
calls Stirling-PDF “choose when you want a self-hosted web UI for PDF editing instead of integrating a Go library.”
PDF tooling for Go and the command line.
8.8kGoactive
Hopding/pdf-libGitHub
calls Stirling-PDF “A web app for editing PDFs, not an embeddable library.”
Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment
8.6kTypeScriptdormant