Deploy and Host Stirling PDF on Railway

Stirling PDF is a self-hosted web app with dozens of PDF tools: merge, split, rotate, compress, convert, add watermarks, sign, redact, run OCR and more. Files are processed on your own server.

About Hosting Stirling PDF

This template runs the official stirlingtools/stirling-pdf:latest image with a persistent volume at /configs for settings. Login is off by default, so the tools are available as soon as the deploy finishes; open the generated URL and start using them. If you keep the instance public, anyone with the link can use it, so consider enabling login in the settings or keeping the URL private.

Common Use Cases

Merge, split, compress and convert PDFs without uploading them to a third-party site
Run OCR on scanned documents
Redact, sign, watermark and reorder pages for internal workflows

Dependencies for Stirling PDF Hosting

One service with a volume; nothing else

Deployment Dependencies

Why Deploy Stirling PDF on Railway?

Railway gives you a public HTTPS URL, a persistent volume and automatic restarts with no server to maintain. The first start takes a minute while the Java app loads.