Stirling-PDF
Document Management
v3.3.0
Stirling PDF is a self-hosted PDF platform for individuals and teams to modify, combine, split, sign, redact, convert, OCR, and compress PDFs without sending…7d agoMITDockerModerate
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About these Adobe Acrobat Pro alternatives
1 open-source, self-hosted alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Pro are listed here, ranked by popularity, maintenance and documentation.
- Highest rated
- Stirling-PDF (96 455 GitHub stars, MIT license, written in Typescript)
- Docker
- 1 of the top 1 ship an official Docker image
- Recently updated
- Stirling-PDF v3.3.0 on 2026-11-05
Adobe Acrobat Pro alternatives compared
| Project | License | Language | Stars | Docker | Setup | Latest release | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stirling-PDF | MIT | Typescript | 96 455 | Yes | Moderate | v3.3.0 | 87 |