Anyone using Stirling PDF? Worth it? (docs.stirlingpdf.com)

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I'm considering running Stirling PDF. In a way, it's pretty niche: a tool for editing PDF files. On the other hand, when the need arises every now and then, for myself or those around me, it's always a bit of a pain to figure out how to do it right on Linux.

Stirling seems to be a decent solution for this.

However, seeing things like this in the docs is giving me pause :

Before configuring OAuth 2.0 SSO, ensure you have:

Stirling PDF with login enabled (security.enableLogin: true)

Valid license for Professional tier or higher

Requirements:

Java 21+

Linux/Unix system

2GB RAM minimum

LibreOffice, Tesseract (for features)

Have some of you deployed it and used it? What's your take?

Thanks!

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[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 19 hours ago

They started to get really pushy about the premium features, so I removed it again.

[-] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 22 hours ago

I did for a while but I switched to bentopdf. Mostly a personal preference, but yes those tools are really great for pdf work

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 3 points 21 hours ago

I love it. Works great. I also don't feel the need to have authentication in front of it; I just leave it internal.

[-] jasonzelek@fosstodon.org 1 points 17 hours ago

@axx used to run this in docker container, if I recall, it used a ton of memory even when idle. Switched over to BentoPDF and while I don't need to mess with pdfs super often, it's currently idling at 11mb of ram.

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