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PaperPilot provides a locally running Rust PDF and document toolkit. According to a report dated October 26, 2026, the toolkit is written in pure Rust, and the same engine offers five forms: an MCP server, a CLI, browser WASM, a desktop application, and a local REST API; files are processed entirely locally and are never uploaded to the cloud. The current v0.6 supports merging, splitting, rotating, compressing, OCR (pure-Rust PaddleOCR via rten), watermarking, signature verification, PII scanning, and Excel-to-JSON/CSV conversion. The MCP server can be connected directly to Claude Desktop or Cursor, allowing AI agents to perform PDF operations; the community edition is open source under Apache 2.0, while the enterprise edition (SSO, RBAC, audit logs, DLP) is developed separately. There are currently no facts about subsequent developments.
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PaperPilot: A local PDF tool written in pure Rust that can serve as an MCP server for Claude and…
PaperPilot is a PDF and document toolkit written in pure Rust. The same engine provides five forms: an MCP server, a CLI, a browser WASM build, a desktop app, and a local REST API. Files are processed entirely locally and are never uploaded to the cloud. The current v0.6 supports merging, splitting, rotating, compressing, OCR (based on pure-Rust PaddleOCR via rten), watermarking, signature verification, PII scanning, and Excel-to-JSON/CSV conversion. The MCP server can be connected directly to Claude Desktop or Cursor, enabling AI agents to perform PDF operations; the community edition is open source under Apache 2.0, while the enterprise edition (SSO, RBAC, audit logs, DLP) is developed separately.