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PaperPilot: Pure-Rust PDF engine with WASM and MCP
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PaperPilot: Pure-Rust PDF engine with WASM and MCP

The gist

PaperPilot, a Rust-based PDF toolkit, runs document processing locally across CLI, MCP, WASM and desktop.
It targets users who want AI-agent PDF work without sending files to the cloud.

How it unfolded

  1. date unknownThe PaperPilot GitHub repository shows 19 stars, 0 forks, 1,533 commits and separate folders for core, PDF, WASM, MCP, CLI, gateway, NLP, storage and AI modules.
  2. date unknownVersion 0.6 ships with page organization tools, compression, plain-text extraction, OCR via a pure-Rust PaddleOCR implementation powered by rten, watermarking, signature validation and removal, PII scanning, deep sanitization, and Excel-to-JSON/CSV conversion.
  3. Oct 26, 2026LavX News publishes an article describing PaperPilot as a local-first Rust PDF toolkit with MCP support for Claude and Cursor, a browser WASM version and a desktop app sharing one core engine.

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