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Posted by vardhan1237 4 hours ago

PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP(github.com)
103 points | 25 comments
totetsu 4 minutes ago|
I started building things like this as browser extensions to make the hosting simpler.
chiharukiryu 3 minutes ago||
interesting,but will it have official GUI?
Surac 1 hour ago||
I use mostly typst for pdf generating today i have written different frontends and connectors to transform everything into typ files and templates. I eben use it with sphinx as a backend
foresterre 1 hour ago|
How do you use it with i18n and theming and templates? Do you define all of these outside of typst and (e.g.) add a shadow file to the typst compiler?

Asking because I've recenly been doing something similar, but since my typst files are templates, which with the same inputs can differ and may need different translations as well, I've written a small i18n library in typst (but I guess you could require a set of translations to be present with a given typst file as well).

mashally 13 minutes ago||
Great work. But why you are using AI for build such a service, it does not need an AI.
Tepix 46 minutes ago||
Can I use it with Open-Webui instead of Apache Tika?
colesantiago 3 hours ago||
Is this PDF engine vibe-coded and derived from reading the MuPDF source code? (Written from C to Rust) I see some slight references to MuPDF in certain places.

If it is you should disclose it and the license should be AGPLv3 instead of Apache.

ligarota 1 hour ago||
It's using hayro in Rust
salahalhaismawi 25 minutes ago|||
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jacquesm 3 hours ago||
Licenses are so yesterday. /s

Seriously though, can you list some examples?

tredre3 1 hour ago||
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febed 2 hours ago||
Would be useful to have a remove password feature (for a known password) and support for adding signatures
darksim905 1 hour ago||
I think there's a difference between a standard PDF viewer and basic functionality, vs a full PDF authoring suite like Adobe. For some of the basic features in one of the comments, I'm not quite sure how tried and tested tools that are simple like Foxit PDF don't fit the bill for most things. Unless you're trying to process gobs of PDFs in headless mode or do some sort of analysis... eh.
Gigachad 25 minutes ago|
Is there a real use case for manually authoring a PDF directly? I assumed everyone would either use a word processor or some other tool that exports as pdf rather than editing a pdf as if it was a word doc.
measurablefunc 2 hours ago||
Nice work.
spwa4 1 hour ago|
Love the web interface! But can it be done better?

First, how do you "sign" a PDF?

If you're going to build this, can you find a small, even tiny model that has decent tool calling and, effectively turn that in combination with this tool into a single HTML page that I can use everywhere?

Literally something I could save on a work laptop or cloud desktop and would actually work (even if it would be slow, it'd still be a great improvement)

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