Apps / Productivity
Stirling PDF
PDF tools that never leave the house
Merge, split, rotate, compress, sign, OCR, convert to and from Office formats, remove passwords, redact. The same set of things every free PDF site offers — except the document stays on this box instead of being uploaded to a stranger, which for a contract or a payslip is the whole point.
CategoryProductivity
Memory~800MB
Module
stirling-pdfInstalling it
Open the dashboard, find it in the App Store and press Install. Or from a terminal on the box:
sudo homebox install stirling-pdfWhere to open it
| Service | Port | First login |
|---|---|---|
| Stirling PDF | :8084 | No account by default — it opens straight into the tool list. |
Open it at your box's address with that port — the dashboard links to it directly once it is running.
Good to know
- No login by default — anything that reaches the page can process files. Turn on security in Settings if this box is not only yours
- OCR and Office conversion pull extra language and LibreOffice packs the first time you use them, so the first run of those is slow
- Files are processed and handed back, not stored. There is no library to go and find something in later