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Stirling PDF compared with FixMyScan
DetailStirling PDF logo Stirling PDFFixMyScan logo FixMyScan
What it doesA free, private PDF editor you can run on any infrastructure. Clean, searchable PDFs from scanned books for e-readers
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Pricing modelFreemium Paid
PricingFree: $0/month includes 60+ PDF tools, web/desktop/self-hosted access, open-source editor, and 1,000 monthly credits. Team: $99/month for 100 users, includes everything in Free plus single sign-on, team workspace, and central control. Enterprise: Custom pricing for regulated and air-gapped deploymen Personal plans: $9.99 per week (billed weekly) or $79.99 per year (billed yearly, equivalent to $6.67 per month). Team plans start at $29 per month (billed yearly as $348) for up to 3 people and 20,000 pages per month. Department plan: $69 per month (billed yearly as $828) for up to 10 people and 50
Key features
  • PDF reader with lightning-fast reading
  • 60+ PDF editing tools
  • OCR to read scanned pages
  • Classification and tagging
  • Signature validation
  • PDF redaction
  • Compression
  • Routing to multiple destinations
  • API for programmatic access
  • Connectors for tool integration
  • Automatic margin removal and page cropping
  • Page straightening for tilted scans
  • Two-page scan splitting into single pages
  • Yellow and grey paper conversion to white
  • OCR in 19 languages
  • File compression and size reduction
  • Works with Kindle, Kobo, reMarkable and other e-readers
  • Greyscale preservation for images and photos
  • Integration with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok
What makes it different
  • Completely free editor forever with no per-seat licensing
  • Run on any infrastructure with files staying yours
  • Process thousands of PDFs with AI-powered automation
  • Every action logged and recorded for compliance
  • Single crop applies to all pages automatically
  • Processes up to 1,000 pages in minutes without installation
  • Preserves page numbers and citations from original book
  • Works on all major e-readers with one PDF output
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)63 +1 (up) since last checkNot checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)150
Citation Flow (Majestic)400
Referring domains (Majestic)8720

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