# KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot

> A local PDF toolkit written in Rust: merge, split, OCR, compress, watermark. Runs as an MCP server for AI agents, CLI, browser WASM, desktop app, and local REST API — files never leave your machine.

- Magnitude: 6.3 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 104 total · +63 stars measured 2026-10-26, 05:01–06:22 UTC, ≈ 166 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Rust · Created: 2026-09-28 · Last push: 2026-10-26
- GitHub: https://github.com/KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot

## Useful for

- Connect the MCP server to Claude Desktop or Cursor so the agent merges and compresses PDFs
- Write a CLI script for batch PDF processing: merge, split, rotate, compress
- Call the local REST API at localhost:7823 from Python, Node, or n8n

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-26 (UTC), 05:01–06:22: 41 → 104 stars (+63). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +166 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
- The repository is 28 days old and already has 104 stars.
- Hacker News: “PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP” — 64 points, 3 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1
- Issues and pull requests: 264
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 39 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 46
- Latest release: v0.6.0 (2026-10-24)

## Stars per day, last 29 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-28 … 2026-10-26: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 108, 63

## Hacker News

- PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP — 64 points, 9 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238739

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-26 06:33 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.