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From Adobe PDF to your own PDF editor tool : Host Stirling PDF

Take Back Control of Your Documents: Host Stirling PDF on Yundera

Every day we deal with PDFs: contracts, reports, scanned docs, invoices.

But every time we upload them to cloud editors, we risk leaks, limits, or license fees.

Why trust your sensitive documents to someone else?

Meet Stirling PDF, the open source, self-hosted PDF editor that gives you full control.

And with Yundera, you can spin it up in one click, under your domain, in your cloud.

What Is Stirling PDF?

Stirling PDF is a web-based PDF toolkit you can run on your own server.

It offers more than 50 powerful PDF tools including merging, splitting, converting, redacting, compressing, OCR, watermarking, signing, editing metadata, and more.

Unlike closed systems, Stirling PDF runs locally. Files are processed in memory or temporarily on your server and then removed. Nothing lingers in third-party clouds.

It’s the PDF editor built for privacy, ownership, and flexibility.

Why Stirling PDF Belongs in Yundera

Here’s why Stirling PDF is a perfect fit for your Private Cloud Server:

  • Full control: no external servers, no trackers, no forced upgrades
  • Rich feature set: covers more PDF use cases than many paid tools
  • Scalable and modular: you only use what you need, and you can upgrade your server capacity
  • Open source and auditable: everyone can inspect, improve, and trust the code
  • Container-ready: easy to deploy, replicate, backup, and integrate into Yundera’s app ecosystem

Stirling PDF turns your Yundera instance into a full PDF lab for you, your team, or your clients.

Inside Stirling PDF: What You Can Do

Here’s a breakdown of its core capabilities:

Organize and Edit

  • Merge multiple PDFs into one
  • Split a PDF into several documents
  • Extract, remove, crop, or rotate pages
  • Rearrange page order or adjust page sizes
  • Add or remove images, metadata, bookmarks, and attachments
  • Edit annotations, flatten layers, or remove blank pages

Conversion

  • To PDF: images, Word, Excel, HTML, Markdown, CBZ, CBR, and email formats
  • From PDF: Word (DOCX, ODT), images, HTML, Markdown, CSV, XML, text, RTF, and presentation formats (PPTX, ODP)
  • Convert PDFs to archival (PDF/A) or optimized versions

Security and Signing

  • Add or remove password protection
  • Adjust document permissions such as printing, editing, or copying
  • Apply digital signatures, stamps, or watermarks
  • Redact content, sanitize metadata, and remove hidden elements
  • Validate existing signatures

OCR, Repair, and Advanced Tools

  • OCR scanned documents to make them searchable
  • Repair corrupt or malformed PDFs
  • Chain tasks like redact, compress, and rename into one workflow
  • Process multiple files in parallel for faster performance
  • API and CLI support for integration with other apps
  • Optional login, authentication, and enterprise-level SSO features

How to Install Stirling PDF on Yundera in One Click

Deploying Stirling PDF on your Yundera server is simple and fast.

Step 1. Login to your Yundera Dashboard

Open your control panel.

Step 2. Go to the App Store

Browse the list of available open source applications.

Step 3. Search “Stirling PDF”

Click Install when it appears.

Step 4. Wait around 30 seconds

Yundera handles container setup, domain routing, SSL certificates, and configuration for you.

Once ready, access it via:

👉 https://yourname.nsl.sh/stirlingpdf

Step 5. Start editing your PDFs

Upload a document, choose the tool (merge, redact, convert, etc.), and download the result. Everything happens on your server, privately.

You can also integrate it into automated workflows or pipelines within your Yundera apps.

Why Self-Hosting Your PDF Editor Changes Everything

Using Stirling PDF on Yundera means:

  • No file size upload caps imposed by third parties
  • No risk of your documents being scanned or stored by SaaS providers
  • Collaboration within your infrastructure
  • Seamless backups and versioning under your control
  • Extendibility by combining Stirling PDF with other Yundera apps (for example, generate PDF then send via PsiTransfer)

You don’t just use a PDF tool, you own it.

💡 Try It Today

Install Stirling PDF with one click on Yundera and regain full control over your documents.

Secure, powerful, private — your PDF editor, on your terms.

👉 Own your Private Cloud Server.

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