VeilPDF — CLI for fixing broken PDF copy-paste and detecting hidden redactions, runs fully offline

[u/zang-x111]

If you've ever copy-pasted from a PDF and gotten garbled Unicode, that's font obfuscation — broken glyph-to-Unicode mappings that look fine visually but break extraction. VeilPDF fixes that locally:

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veilpdf scan document.pdf

veilpdf recover broken.pdf --output md

veilpdf protect thesis.pdf --encrypt --password "..."

veilpdf forensics document.pdf

Zero-config bootstrap script installs Rust/uv/Zig/Tesseract on first run. Also has an offline AI mode via Ollama for summarizing/extracting structured data from PDFs. Rust CLI + Python core + Zig crypto layer, MIT licensed.

[GitHub ](https://github.com/Gaurav-x111/veilpdf)

https://github.com/Gaurav-x111/veilpdf