Lift the veil. Or lay it down. — Local PDF security toolkit: fix broken copy-paste, protect documents, detect hidden content, AI extraction via Ollama. Rust + Python + Zig. VeilPDF fixes PDFs with broken copy-paste (font obfuscation), protects your documents with invisible watermarks + AES-256, detects fake redactions, and summarizes via local Ollama — zero cloud, zero cost, runs entirely on your machine. Built with Rust + Python + Zig.
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Built VeilPDF after a frustrating experience — copying text from academic PDFs and getting complete gibberish. Turns out that's intentional: publishers break Unicode mappings so copy-paste fails while the PDF looks visually perfect.
No clean open-source tool existed for this, so I built one that covers the full lifecycle:
→ recover: fix broken PDFs, OCR fallback for scanned docs
→ protect: obfuscate your own PDFs, watermark, AES-256
→ forensics: detect fake redactions, font fingerprints
→ ai: summarize and extract via Ollama — fully offline
One command sets everything up:
git clone https://github.com/Gaurav-x111/v... && ./veilpdf
Would love your feedback!