Bring your whole team. Everything you need to scale from editing one PDF to processing millions.

A private editor for everyone

60+ tools for lightning-fast reading, editing and signing.

Servers for team deployments

Stirling Cloud, your own servers, or air-gapped. Files never leave.

Processors for automation

APIs & agents classify, secure and route thousands a day. Fully automated.

PDF Editor

Private, open-source, and audit-ready.

Protect your sensitive files from landing in websites you can't trust. Stirling's editor runs on your machine, and the source is public so you can verify that instead of trusting it.

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The Processor's core over 24 hours: three policies enforcing across 16,632 runs with 218 documents flagged for review, and nine pipelines running 9,260 more

PDF Processor

Work on thousands of PDFs at a time.

Policies enforce the rules you set on every file. Pipelines do the heavier jobs on the documents that need them. Both run without you having to open files one at a time.

Reads scans, not just digital files

Rule changes need approval

Every action logged

Scale with Stirling

Call it from your own code, connect the tools your team already uses, or just ask.

Redact all of the account numbers.

Done. I made 14 redactions across 9 pages. Please review them in the canvas.

Assistant

For the file you have open, just ask. The assistant makes the edit in place - redact, translate, summarize, convert - while you watch.

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POST /api/v1/pipelines/intake

Process contracts-0729.zip · 412 PDFs

APIs

Every PDF operation, callable from your own systems. One request in, processed files out, webhooks when it's done.

  • OCR

    Read scanned pages

  • Classify

    Tag type and sensitivity

  • Validate

    Check every signature

  • Redact

    Hide sensitive details

  • Compress

    Shrink for archive

  • Route

    Deliver to SharePoint

Pipelines

Chain operations into one run. Process file batches programmatically.

A scanned statement of work being processed: a Contract type tag applied, two passages redacted, and a seven year retention marker added

Policies

Your rules, applied the moment a file arrives.

  • Slack
  • Google Drive
  • Box
  • Dropbox
  • SAP
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Salesforce
  • Notion
  • Zapier
  • Gmail
  • HubSpot
  • Asana
  • Zendesk
  • Airtable
  • Okta

Connectors

Integrate with the tools your team already uses every day.

Docker
Kubernetes
Amazon Web Services
Azure
Google Cloud
Linux
NGINX
Red Hat
Ubuntu
Terraform
Helm
GitHub Actions
VMware

PDF Servers

Run Stirling on any infrastructure

Validated by security experts worldwide

  • “Stirling PDF is the ultimate tool for manipulating your PDFs. For those worried about their privacy, don't panic. Your files stay safe and sound on your machine."

    Manuel Dorne

    Cybersecurity Expert, Korben

  • “Stirling PDF has become an essential part of my document processing pipeline....It creates a powerful automated workflow that handles my documents securely and efficiently”

    Akash Rajpurohit

    Sr Software Engineer, Levels.fyi

  • "The best part is Stirling's features can be used either from the platform or via API, ideal if you are working on a project requiring document processing or PDF generation."

    Wassim Samad

    Developer, 3D AI Studio

  • "This is the one PDF Editor to rule them all! My quest for the perfect PDF editor finally paid off. Meet Stirling PDF, the only PDF editor you will ever need."

    Vikash Jhagroe

    Sr Technical Adoption Mgr, VMware

  • "Stirling PDF is the ultimate PDF editor. DO NOT use Adobe Acrobat Pro. Use Stirling PDF."

    Carlos Melantuche

    Sr Infrastructure Engineer, Aramark

  • “Stirling is the best open-source PDF manipulation tool. The interface is designed to be clear and simple, making it easy for anyone to use.”

    Senthilkumar Palani

    Editor, OSTechNix

  • “For those who don’t want to pony up for Adobe’s software or upload their files to sketchy-looking file conversion websites, Stirling PDF is the Swiss Army knife for PDF documents."

    Zack Whittaker

    Security Editor, TechCrunch

  • “Every feature in Stirling is designed to maximize your productivity while remaining intuitive to use."

    Clement Mondary

    Agency Director, Groupe Luminess

  • “Stirling PDF has its rightful place in business environments. It meets many user needs and costs nothing to start.”

    Florian Burnel

    System Engineer, IT-Connect

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