Deploy and Host SiftPDF on Railway

SiftPDF solves the most efficient step-and-repeat, gang, or true-shape nest layout for a job — deterministically, ready to hand to your output step. Built from the public printwithsynergy/sift-pdf repo.

About Hosting SiftPDF

This template deploys a single stateless sift-pdf HTTP service. Railway builds it straight from the public repository and exposes the REST API; no database or object store is required. Health rides at GET /healthz, the published endpoint surface at GET /v1/contract. Scale vertically for large documents or horizontally behind your own gateway.

Why Deploy SiftPDF?

Run it on infrastructure you control: keep customer PDFs inside your network, pin the engine version your shop validated, and avoid per-document SaaS fees. If you'd rather have it managed (auth, quotas, billing, the full Synergy toolkit), use the hosted platform at https://host.withsynergy.io.

Common Use Cases

• Plan gang runs and nests automatically before committing press time
• Feed deterministic layouts into CompilePDF or your existing output step
• Estimate material usage during quoting

Dependencies for SiftPDF Hosting

None — the service is fully self-contained.

Deployment Dependencies

• Source & docs: https://github.com/printwithsynergy/sift-pdf
• The wider open-source prepress toolkit: https://work.withsynergy.io