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# Description of Changes Change Stirling Engine to support deleting documents automatically. This happens both on user logout and after an amount of time specified by the Java when ingesting a document (allowing for personal documents to have short lifetimes but org documents to be left in the db with no expiry date). Also sets up an [ACL policy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access-control_list) for the documents so the database knows which users have access to which documents. This is not fully implemented in the Java, so currently all docs are treated as having a single owner, the uploader, but theoretically when we need to support org storage, we shouldn't need to change the db schema.
Stirling PDF - The Open-Source PDF Platform
Stirling PDF is a powerful, open-source PDF editing platform. Run it as a personal desktop app, in the browser, or deploy it on your own servers with a private API. Edit, sign, redact, convert, and automate PDFs without sending documents to external services.
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