Stirling-PDF

This is a locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as splitting and adding images.

Started off as a 100% ChatGPT made application, slowly moving away from that as more features are added

I will support and fix/add things to this if there is a demand Discord

Features

• Split PDFs into multiple files at specified page numbers or extract all pages as individual files.
• Merge multiple PDFs together into a single resultant file
• Convert PDFs to and from images
• Reorganize PDF pages into different orders.
• Add images to PDFs at specified locations. (WIP)
• Rotating PDFs in 90 degree increments.
• Compressing PDFs to decrease their filesize. (Using OCRMyPDF)
• Add and remove passwords
• Set PDF Permissions
• Add watermark(s)
• Convert Any common file to PDF (using LibreOffice)
• Extract images from PDF
• OCR on PDF (Using OCRMyPDF)
• Edit metadata
• Dark mode support.
• Custom download options (see here for example)
• Parallel file processing and downloads

Technologies used

• Spring Boot + Thymeleaf
• PDFBox
• LibreOffice for advanced conversions
• OcrMyPdf
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Docker

How to use

Locally

Prerequisites

• Java 17 or later
• Gradle 7.0 or later

1. Clone or download the repository.
2. Build the project using Gradle by running ./gradlew build
3. Start the application by running ./gradlew bootRun or by calling the build jar in build/libs with java -jar jarName.jar

Docker

https://hub.docker.com/r/frooodle/s-pdf

Docker Run

docker run -p 8080:8080 frooodle/s-pdf

Docker Compose

version: '3.3'
services:
    s-pdf:
        ports:
            - '8080:8080'
        image: frooodle/s-pdf

Enable OCR/Compression feature

Please view https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/HowToUseOCR.md

Want to add your own language?

If you want to add your own language to Stirling-PDF please refer https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/HowToAddNewLanguage.md

And please create a PR to merge it back in so others can use it!

Also please note as i add new features i will google translate existing languages so that they dont lose support. This could mean that new features need grammer corrections as added.

How to View

1. Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/
2. Use the application by following the instructions on the website.

Customize App Name

Stirling PDF allows easy customization of the visible application name. Simply use environment variables APP_HOME_NAME, APP_HOME_DESCRIPTION and APP_NAVBAR_NAME with Docker or Java. If running Java directly, you can also pass these as properties using -D arguments.