Versions of Stirling PDF
Stirling PDF is available in several formats, each catering to different needs and use cases:
Docker Versions
For server deployments, we offer three pre-configured Docker images:
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Fat: Includes all Full features plus additional fonts and pre-bundled jar security version
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Full: All features pre-configured and ready to use
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Ultra-Lite: Minimal installation with core features only
Desktop Versions (Windows & Unix)
The desktop versions of Stirling PDF use a dynamic feature system. They start with Ultra-Lite features as the base and automatically enable additional functionality based on installed dependencies:
Base Features (Ultra-Lite):
- Core PDF operations (merge, split, rotate, etc.)
- Basic conversions
- Password protection
- All features marked with ✔️ in the Ultra-Lite column below
Additional features become available automatically when you install:
- LibreOffice: Enables document format conversions (PDF to Word, Excel, etc.)
- Tesseract: Enables OCR functionality
- QPDF: Enables compression and repair features
- Other dependencies: Enable their respective features
Feature Comparison
Here are the different technologies each version uses:
| Technology | Ultra-Lite | Full |
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| Java | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| JavaScript | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Libre | ✔️ | |
| Python | ✔️ | |
| OpenCV | ✔️ | |
| Tesseract | ✔️ |
And here you see what functions are offered as part of each.
| Operation | Ultra-Lite | Full |
|---|---|---|
| add-page-numbers | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| add-password | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| add-image | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| add-watermark | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| adjust-contrast | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| auto-split-pdf | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| auto-redact | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| auto-rename | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| cert-sign | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| crop | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| change-metadata | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| change-permissions | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| compare | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| extract-page | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| extract-images | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| flatten | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| get-info-on-pdf | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| img-to-pdf | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| markdown-to-pdf | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| merge-pdfs | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| multi-page-layout | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| overlay-pdf | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| pdf-organizer | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| pdf-to-csv | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| pdf-to-img | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| pdf-to-single-page | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| remove-blanks | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| remove-pages | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| remove-password | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| rotate-pdf | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| sanitize-pdf | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| scale-pages | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| sign | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| show-javascript | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| split-by-size-or-count | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| split-pdf-by-sections | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| split-pdfs | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| compress-pdf | ✔️ | |
| extract-image-scans | ✔️ | |
| ocr-pdf | ✔️ | |
| pdf-to-pdfa | ✔️ | |
| pdf-to-text | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| pdf-to-html | ✔️ | |
| pdf-to-word | ✔️ | |
| pdf-to-presentation | ✔️ | |
| pdf-to-xml | ✔️ | |
| remove-annotations | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| remove-cert-sign | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| remove-image-pdf | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| file-to-pdf | ✔️ | |
| xlsx-to-pdf | ✔️ | |
| html-to-pdf | ✔️ | |
| url-to-pdf | ✔️ | |
| repair | ✔️ |