StirlingPDF rewrite

This is the development repository for the new StirlingPDF backend. With the power of JS, WASM & GO this will provide almost all functionality SPDF can do currently directly on the client. For automation purposes this will still provide an API to automate your workflows.

Try the new API!

Understanding Workflows

Workflows define how to apply operations to a PDF, including their order and relations with eachother.

Workflows can be created via the web-ui and then exported or, if you want to brag a bit, you can create the JSON object yourself.

Basics

To create your own, you have to understand a few key features first. You can also look at more examples our github repository.

{
  "outputOptions": {
    "zip": false
  },
  "actions": [
    {
      "type": "extract",
      "values": {
        "pageIndexes": [0, 2]
      },
      "actions": []
    }
  ]
}

The workflow above will extract the first (p[0]) and third (p[2]) page of the document.

You can also nest workflows like this:

{
  "outputOptions": {
    "zip": false
  },
  "actions": [
    {
      "type": "extract",
      "values": {
        "pageIndexes": [0, 2]
      },
      "actions": [
        {
          "type": "impose",
          "values": {
            "nup": 2, // 2 pages of the input document will be put on one page of the output document.
            "format": "A4L" // A4L -> The page size of the Ouput will be an A4 in Landscape. You can also use other paper formats and "P" for portrait output. 
          },
          "actions": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

If you look at it closely, you will see that the extract operation has another nested operation of the type impose. This workflow will produce a PDF with the 1st and 2nd page of the input on one single page.

Advanced

If that is not enought for you usecase, there is also the possibility to connect operations with eachother.

You can also do different operations to produce two different output PDFs from one input.

If you are interested in learning about this, take a look at the Example workflows provided in the repository, ask on the discord, or wait for me to finish this documentation.

Features

Rewrite Roadmap

• Client side PDF-Manipulation
• Workflows
• Feature equivalent with S-PDF v1
• Stateful UI
• Node based editing of Workflows
• Propper auth using passportjs

Functions

Current functions of spdf and their progress in this repo.

Page Operations

Status	Feature	Description
🚧A	Merge
🚧A	Split
🚧A	Organize
🚧S	Rotate
🚧A	Remove Pages
🚧A	Multi-Page Layout
❌	Adjust page size/scale
🚧A	Auto Split Pages
❌	Adjust Colours/Contrast
❌	Crop
🚧A	Extract Pages
❌	PDF to Single large Page

Convert

Status	Feature	Description
❌	Image to PDF
🚧S	Convert file to PDF
❌	URL to PDF
❌	HTML to PDF
❌	Markdown to PDF
❌	PDF to Image
❌	PDF to Word
❌	PDF to Presentation
❌	PDF to Text/RTF
❌	PDF to HTML
❌	PDF to PDF/A

Security

Status	Feature	Description
❌	Add Password
❌	Remove Password
❌	Change Permissions
❌	Add Watermark
❌	Sign with Certificate
❌	Sanitize
❌	Auto Redact

Miscellaneous

Status	Feature	Description
❌	OCR
❌	Add image
❌	Compress
❌	Extract Images
🚧S	Change Metadata
🚧A	Detect/Split Scanned photos
❌	Sign
❌	Flatten
❌	Repair
🚧A	Remove Blank Pages
❌	Compare/Diff
❌	Add Page Numbers
❌	Auto Rename
❌	Get info
❌	Show JS

✔️: Done, 🚧: Started Developement, ❌: Planned Feature A: Available in the internal API, S: Available on the node server, C: Available in the client

Contribute

For initial instructions look at CONTRIBUTE.md