The Stirling PDF Project

Let’s have a look to StirlingPDF.

A Selfhosted and OSS project that allow us to operate our PDFs locally.

SelfHosting Stirling PDF

Pre-Requisites!! Just Get Docker 🐋👇

You can install it for any PC/mac/Linux at home or in any cloud provider that you wish.

It will just take few moments, this one. If you are in Linux, just

apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sh get-docker.sh 
#sudo apt install docker-compose -y

And install also Docker-compose with:

apt install docker-compose -y

And when the process finishes - you can use docker to SelfHost other services as well, not just StirlingPDF.

You should see the installed versions with:

docker --version
docker-compose --version

#sudo systemctl status docker #and the status

StirlingPDF with Docker

To SelfHost stirling pdf with docker containers, we will use the following configuration file:

#version: '3.3'
services:
  stirling-pdf:
    image: frooodle/s-pdf:latest
    ports:
      - '8033:8080'
    volumes:
      - /home/Docker/Stirling:/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata #Required for extra OCR languages
      - /home/Docker/Stirling/configs:/configs
#     - /location/of/customFiles:/customFiles/

Once its ready, you can go to the port you’ve chosen (in this case, localhost:8033) and just enjoy using StirlingPDF:

Stirling PDF Features

PS: The first time you’ll use stirling, it will ask you this

Stirling PDF 1st login

FAQ

What other F/OSS Productivity Apps you recommend?

You might want to have a look to these tools:

You can install/deploy any of those in a very similar way to what we did with Docker with StirlingPDF.

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If you are interested in using Drawio with https, deploying NGINX with Docker will be a great option for you.