Stirling PDF Tools

PDFs can be great, but as I move further in to daily driving Linux they sure can be a pain.

One great example is when I routinely get password locked .pdfs from my accountants. Most tools refuse to let me remove the password, until I found a great containerised .pdf tool suite called Stirling PDF

Stirling PDF

As you can see, there are a huge amount of options (including the password remover which saves me loads of time), and getting started with docker compose is just this simple:

services:
  stirling-pdf:
    container_name: stirling-pdf
    image: stirlingtools/stirling-pdf:latest
    ports:
      - 8082:8080
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      #   - ./trainingData:/usr/share/tessdata # Required for extra OCR languages
      - ./extraConfigs:/configs
    #      - ./customFiles:/customFiles/
    #      - ./logs:/logs/
    environment:
      - DOCKER_ENABLE_SECURITY=false
      - INSTALL_BOOK_AND_ADVANCED_HTML_OPS=false
      - LANGS=en_GB

Just change the port you want to map Stirling to and you are good to go.

I used to have Stirling running all the time but now I just use Dockge to turn it on when I need it every few weeks.

I have slain yet another of the things that is keeping me from being full time on Linux (NixOS/Ubuntu these days), onwards and upwards.