Stirling-PDF/README.md

Stirling-PDF

This is a locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as splitting and adding images.

Started off as a 100% ChatGPT made application, slowly moving away from that as more features are added

I will support and fix/add things to this if there is a demand Discord

Features

• Split PDFs into multiple files at specified page numbers or extract all pages as individual files.
• Merge multiple PDFs together into a single resultant file
• Convert PDFs to and from images
• Reorganize PDF pages into different orders.
• Add images to PDFs at specified locations. (WIP)
• Rotating PDFs in 90 degree increments.
• Compressing PDFs to decrease their filesize. (Using OCRMyPDF)
• Add and remove passwords
• Set PDF Permissions
• Add watermark(s)
• Convert Any common file to PDF (using LibreOffice)
• Extract images from PDF
• OCR on PDF (Using OCRMyPDF)
• Edit metadata
• Dark mode support.
• Custom download options
• Parallel file processing and downloads

Technologies used

• Spring Boot + Thymeleaf
• PDFBox
• LibreOffice for advanced conversions
• OcrMyPdf https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Docker

How to use

Locally

Prerequisites

• Java 17 or later
• Gradle 7.0 or later

1. Clone or download the repository.
2. Build the project using Gradle by running ./gradlew build
3. Start the application by running ./gradlew bootRun or by calling the build jar in build/libs with java -jar jarName.jar

Docker

https://hub.docker.com/r/frooodle/s-pdf

Docker Run

docker run -p 8080:8080 frooodle/s-pdf

Docker Compose

version: '3.3'
services:
    s-pdf:
        ports:
            - '8080:8080'
        image: frooodle/s-pdf

How to View

1. Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/
2. Use the application by following the instructions on the website.

Note

The application is currently not thread-safe