Self-Hosting Stirling PDF: All-in-One PDF Toolkit for Your Server

Every time you need to merge two PDFs, compress a large file, or convert a document, you probably end up on some random website. You upload your file, wait for processing, hope they’re not reading your tax returns, and download the result. There’s a better way. Stirling PDF is a self-hosted, open-source PDF toolkit that handles virtually everything you’d ever need to do with a PDF — merge, split, rotate, compress, convert, OCR, add watermarks, extract images, and dozens more operations. It runs entirely on your own server, so your documents never leave your network. ...

February 10, 2026 · 7 min · Self Host Setup