Signature PDF
Signature PDF is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Document Management category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in JavaScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to DocuSign and Adobe Acrobat and ships a Docker image. It has 830 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 22, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Document Management
- JavaScript
- AGPL-3.0
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 830
- Forks
- 112
- Open issues
- 60
- Commits, last 12 months
- 123
- Last commit
- Oct 22, 2026
- Latest release
- v1.11.0Oct 22, 2026
- Created
- May 3, 2021
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 22, 2026, 123 commits in 12 months.
| Last commit | Oct 22, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 123 |
| Latest release | v1.11.0 (Oct 22, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 3 |
| Releases, all time | 21 |
| Open issues | 60 |
| Open pull requests | 12 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | May 3, 2021 |
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About Signature PDF
Sign and manipulate PDFs with collaboration, organization, compression and metadata editing.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/24eme/signaturepdf.
Topics
- signature
- pdf-sign
- pdf-signature
- pdf-signer
- php
- js
- pdf-compression
- pdf-compressor
- pdf-meta-editor
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Is Signature PDF free and open source?
Yes. Signature PDF is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Signature PDF with Docker?
Yes. Signature PDF provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Signature PDF?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Signature PDF include Stirling-PDF, Paperless-ngx and Docuseal. Signature PDF itself is a self-hosted alternative to DocuSign and Adobe Acrobat.
Is Signature PDF actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Signature PDF was on Oct 22, 2026 with 123 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v1.11.0, published Oct 22, 2026. It had 60 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.