One search bar for the whole app, in both the Editor and the Processor. **Cmd/Ctrl+K** from anywhere. - **Editor** — your files, tools, settings, and everything in the Processor: its pages plus live users, policies, pipelines, sources, and full-text developer docs. - **Processor** — the same bar over its own data (users, policies, pipelines, sources, docs) plus tools and settings. Files stay editor-only; pages stay out (the sidebar covers them). - **Filter chips** (and typed prefixes like `policy: invoice`) narrow to one lane; each group shows a few results with **Show more** to expand. - **Access-gated**: users only see lanes and settings sections they can actually open — no Processor chips, results, or entity fetches without portal access, no admin settings for non-admins, no account-bound sections for anonymous SaaS sessions. Asserted by unit tests and a stubbed Playwright suite. - Selecting a result takes you straight there, across apps when needed — results group under collapsible sections. Replaces the separate search boxes that previously lived in the file sidebar, the tool panel header, the settings modal, and the docs page. ### Editor <img src="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/reecebrowne/5879e797c5ab6abc027a7bfd5cd4de17/raw/editor-search.png?v=2" width="800" alt="Editor super search" /> ### Processor <img src="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/reecebrowne/5879e797c5ab6abc027a7bfd5cd4de17/raw/portal-search.png?v=2" width="800" alt="Processor super search" /> --------- Co-authored-by: EthanHealy01 <ethan.healy.21@gmail.com>
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.

