Third-Party Credits
Stirling PDF is built on these open-source projects.
Server-Side
- PDFBox - Core PDF manipulation
- LibreOffice - Office document conversions
- qpdf - Specialized PDF operations
- Tesseract OCR - Text recognition from images
- OpenCV - Image processing
Frontend
- React + TypeScript with Vite
- EmbedPDF / PDF.js - PDF viewing and annotation
- pdf-lib - Client-side PDF manipulation
- Mantine - UI components
- i18next - 30+ language translations
Desktop
- Tauri - Native app framework (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Browser File Storage
Files are stored locally in your browser's IndexedDB between operations. They never leave your device until you process them. Clear storage when done on shared computers.