Best open source PDF editors and tools (self-hosted)

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Stirling-PDF

Local hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as merging, splitting, file conversions and OCR.

Document ManagementDocker

94k

Stirling-PDF has 93,634 GitHub stars, uses the Apache-2.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 1,925 commits in the last year; it replaces Adobe Acrobat.

2

BentoPDF

Powerful, privacy-first, client-side PDF toolkit that allows you to manipulate, edit, merge, and process PDF files directly in your browser.

Document ManagementDocker

16k

BentoPDF has 15,844 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 482 commits in the last year; it replaces Adobe Acrobat.

3

Gotenberg

Developer-friendly API to interact with powerful tools like Chromium and LibreOffice for converting numerous document formats (HTML, Markdown, Word, Excel, etc.) into PDF files, and more.

Document ManagementDocker

13k

Gotenberg has 13,228 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 366 commits in the last year; it replaces Adobe Acrobat.

4

OmniTools

Collection of powerful web-based tools for everyday tasks (coding, manipulating images/videos, PDFs or crunching numbers...).

UtilitiesDocker

10k

OmniTools has 10,284 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 514 commits in the last year.

5

SnapOtter

Suite of 200+ web tools for converting and editing images, videos, audio and PDFs, including a layer-based image editor, OCR, transcription, background removal and batch processing pipelines…

Document ManagementDocker

2.8k

AI-nativeSnapOtter has 2,782 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 689 commits in the last year.

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Docuseal

Create, fill, and sign digital documents (alternative to DocuSign).

Document ManagementDocker

19k

Docuseal has 18,658 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 925 commits in the last year; it replaces DocuSign and Adobe Acrobat.

2

Documenso

Digital document signing platform (alternative to DocuSign).

Document ManagementDocker

15k

Documenso has 15,336 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 695 commits in the last year; it replaces DocuSign and Adobe Acrobat.

3

Signature PDF

Sign and manipulate PDFs with collaboration, organization, compression and metadata editing.

Document ManagementDocker

827

Signature PDF has 827 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 115 commits in the last year; it replaces DocuSign and Adobe Acrobat.

1

Paperless-ngx

Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents with an improved interface (fork of Paperless).

Document ManagementDocker

46k

AI-nativePaperless-ngx has 46,308 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 1,625 commits in the last year.

2

Docspell

Auto-tagging document organizer and archive.

Document ManagementDocker

2.3k

Docspell has 2,333 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 77 commits in the last year.

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Papermerge

Document management system focused on scanned documents (electronic archives). Features file browsing in similar way to dropbox/google drive. OCR, full text search, text overlay/selection.

Document ManagementDocker

542

Papermerge has 542 GitHub stars, uses the Apache-2.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 193 commits in the last year.