Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by rodlette on Monday December 25, 2023 @03:22PM (#38765763)

Nice. I've been looking for something like this to self-host, to avoid my partner uploading sensitive documents to random PDF manipulation websites.

Any better alternatives I should be considering?

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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by Etheryte on Monday December 25, 2023 @03:54PM (#38766019)

If you happen to be on macOS, the Preview app does an absurd number of things to PDFs, and it does it well. To be honest I'm always surprised it isn't highlighted more by Apple, it's a great tool that pretty much always just works. You can split files, join them, rotate, add signatures, drawings, annotations, redact sections, etc. The feature list is long, especially considering that by the name of the application you'd think it could just preview files, not edit them.

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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by sumedh on Monday December 25, 2023 @08:56PM (#38768270)

> to be honest I'm always surprised it isn't highlighted more by Apple

Probably because its not so intuitive, I have to google how to use some of the advanced features of Preview.

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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by somethingsome on Monday December 25, 2023 @04:19PM (#38766218)

I often use PDF Sam (basic) and usually it works quite well and is offline.

https://pdfsam.org/

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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by cde-v on Monday December 25, 2023 @04:06PM (#38766109)

Edge is surprising decent for marking up PDFs.

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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by jftuga on Monday December 25, 2023 @04:56PM (#38766506)

A really nice, stand-alone command line tool is pdfcpu.

https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu

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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by rodlette on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @04:04AM (#38770091)

Looks great, but my partner needs something more convenient.

It needs to be web based and work on desktop/mobile.

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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by bayindirh on Monday December 25, 2023 @05:08PM (#38766605)

KDE’s Okular. Works on Linux, Windows and macOS.

If you’re on already macOS, Preview already has you covered.

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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by jbc1 on Monday December 25, 2023 @06:07PM (#38767190)

Does it need to be a self hosted web based tool or do you just need PDF software? If the latter I find PDF Expert to be powerful and nice to use.

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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by tony69 on Monday December 25, 2023 @06:16PM (#38767261)

I use pdftool.org which I saw on HN a while back

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