Stirling PDF — Self-hosted PDF processing with an HTTP API

Overview

Stirling PDF packages more than 50 PDF tools behind a web UI and a REST API. It runs as one container, keeps documents on the host, and lets scripts call the same operations the UI offers. This skill covers deployment with Docker, configuration, and API calls from the shell and from Python.

Instructions

Installation

Create compose.yaml in an empty directory such as /opt/stirling-pdf: