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+# Stirling-PDF
+
+This is a locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as splitting and adding images.
+
+## Features
+
+- Split PDFs into multiple files at specified page numbers or extract all pages as individual files.
+- Merge multiple PDFs together into a single resultant file
+- Convert PDFs to and from images
+- Reorganize PDF pages into different orders.
+- Add images to PDFs at specified locations.
+- Dark mode support.
+
+## Technologies used
+- Spring Boot + Thymeleaf
+- PDFBox
+- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
+- Docker
+
+## How to use
+
+### Locally 
+
+Prerequisites
+- Java 17 or later
+- Gradle 6.0 or later
+
+1. Clone or download the repository.
+2. Build the project using Gradle by running `./gradlew build`
+3. Start the application by running `./gradlew bootRun`
+
+
+### Docker
+docker pull frooodle/s-pdf
+
+docker run -p 8080:8080 frooodle/s-pdf
+
+
+## How to View
+1. Open a web browser and navigate to `http://localhost:8080/`
+2. Use the application by following the instructions on the website.
+
+## Note
+The application is currently not thread-safe