Three things from this morning's demo: The row now carries the kind's own sentence rather than the server's raw message, the empty panel says the reader is caught up, and the log moves to a Copy log entry in the overflow menu. Reading the stack trace is the processor's job, not the bell's. View in processor opens a new tab when the reader has a loaded workbench to lose, so a failure mid-upload does not cost them every file they had open. From the processor, or from an empty workbench, it navigates as it did. Decrypt and retry versions the encrypted original in place when the file is merely closed in the sidebar. The parent stub was read only from the workbench, so a closed file was adopted as a new one: the user ended up holding a decrypted copy and the locked original side by side.
Stirling PDF - The Open-Source PDF Platform
Stirling PDF is a powerful, open-source PDF editing platform. Run it as a personal desktop app, in the browser, or deploy it on your own servers with a private API. Edit, sign, redact, convert, and automate PDFs without sending documents to external services.
Key Capabilities
- Everywhere you work - Desktop client, browser UI, and self-hosted server with a private API.
- 50+ PDF tools - Edit, merge, split, sign, redact, convert, OCR, compress, and more.
- Automation & workflows - No-code pipelines direct in UI with APIs to process millions of PDFs.
- Enterprise‑grade - SSO, auditing, and flexible on‑prem deployments.
- Developer platform - REST APIs available for nearly all tools to integrate into your existing systems.
- Global UI - Interface available in 40+ languages.
For a full feature list, see the docs: https://docs.stirlingpdf.com
Quick Start
docker run -p 8080:8080 docker.stirlingpdf.com/stirlingtools/stirling-pdf
Then open: http://localhost:8080
For full installation options (including desktop and Kubernetes), see our Documentation Guide.
Resources
Support
- Community: Discord
- Bug Reports: GitHub Issues
Contributing
We welcome contributions! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.
This project uses Task as a unified command runner for all build, dev, and test commands. Run task dev to get started running the editor, run task to see the most common commands, or see the Developer Guide for full details.
For adding translations, see the Translation Guide.
License
Stirling PDF is open-core. See LICENSE for details.

