emperor-pdf runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 2 Nov 2026.
Read, search and render the PDFs in one folder; merge, extract and create them from Markdown.
Today is the operative word: we check emperor-pdf every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Extract text and metadata from PDFs; convert Markdown or text to PDF
Extract text and metadata from local PDFs, and merge or split PDF files.
Read-only local-first MCP server for private Markdown, PDF, and Tika-backed search on Windows.
PDF to Markdown and PDF to text from PDF URLs, page by page, with OCR for scanned pages
Merge, split, extract, rotate, reorder and stamp PDF pages from your AI chat, all offline.
Merge, split, extract, rotate, reorder and stamp PDF pages from your AI chat, all offline.
Merge, split, extract, rotate, reorder and stamp PDF pages from your AI chat, all offline.
Merge, split, extract, rotate, reorder and stamp PDF pages from your AI chat, all offline.
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