Open-source PDF platform to edit, convert, OCR, sign, redact, and automate PDF workflows via a web UI and REST API.
90.5k stars8.2k forkslast commit Actively maintained
5 self-hosted PDFShift alternatives
PDFShift is a hosted API that converts HTML or web pages into PDFs. Developers submit URLs or raw HTML and can configure headers/footers, page size and margins, authentication, and output options; generated PDFs are returned via a REST API.
Alternatives to PDFShift
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ConvertX is a self-hosted web file converter supporting 1000+ formats across documents, images, audio/video, ebooks, and 3D assets, with multi-file processing and accounts.
18.6k stars1k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
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Self-hostable, privacy-first PDF toolkit that runs fully in the browser for editing, merging, converting, and processing PDFs without server-side uploads.
14.8k stars1.3k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
Gotenberg is a containerized HTTP API that converts HTML, Markdown, and Office documents to PDF using engines like Chromium and LibreOffice, with options to merge and automate outputs.
12.9k stars846 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
Go-based self-hosted web archiver for personal/home use. Saves pages as PDF, captures HTTP headers, and stores single-file HTML. Provides a REST API and optional web UI.
197 stars5 forksBSD-3-Clauselast commit Slowing down
What replacing PDFShift actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 4 of 5 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, MIT, BSD-3-Clause. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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