PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP
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technical depth 9
novelty 9
actionability 8
community 8
strategic 7
personal 10
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Open source Rust PDF engine with WASM and MCP, directly aligns with all interests.
Summary
PaperPilot is a pure-Rust PDF engine that runs locally via CLI, MCP server, WASM, desktop (Tauri), and REST API, all sharing a core built on lopdf and rten for OCR. It provides first-class MCP support for AI agents like Claude Desktop to merge, split, compress, and OCR PDFs without any cloud uploads, ensuring data privacy. The open-source (Apache 2.0) project is dependency-light (no Chromium) and includes a roadmap to v1.0 with encryption, signing, and PDF/A.