Endpaper

Privacy

Endpaper runs on your computer. There is no account, no server of ours holding your documents, and we do not receive your files, your text, or a record of what you did with them.

Version of 23 September 2026. This statement covers both the Endpaper application and the eppdf.com website.

The short version

Two things reach the network from the application, both only when you ask:

  • A check for whether a newer version exists.
  • A timestamp authority, if you sign a document with a certificate and name one yourself.

Everything below explains those two and lists what does not happen, so you can hold us to it.

1. What we never receive

We do not receive, and have no mechanism to receive:

  • Your documents, in whole or in part
  • Text taken from your documents, including by text recognition
  • Names of files or folders you open
  • Search terms you type, or words you redact
  • Signatures, certificates or passwords
  • A record of which features you use
  • An identifier for you, your computer or your copy of Endpaper

There is no account and no sign-in. Endpaper does not know who you are, so it cannot tell us.

2. Text recognition, reading aloud and folder search happen on your computer

Making a scan searchable uses the recognition engine built into Windows, and page images are handed to it in memory. Reading aloud uses the voices installed in Windows. Searching across a folder reads the files directly. None of it is uploaded, to us or to anyone, and there is no cloud option to turn on.

3. Problem reports are written down and left alone

If Endpaper crashes, or an edit fails, it writes a file to a folder on your computer and stops there. Nothing is sent, on a timer or otherwise. There is no box to untick because there is nothing to opt out of.

If you want us to see one, Help, Package a crash report, gathers the files into a zip and tells you where it is. You attach it to an email yourself, or you do not. A crash file contains the Endpaper version, your Windows version, the error and the stack trace. No document content is read or copied. The name and path of the document you had open can appear in it, because Windows puts file paths into error messages. Open the zip and look before you send it.

4. Updates

Endpaper checks whether a newer version exists once quietly per day, and whenever you ask. The check contacts eppdf.com and sends the version number you are running. It carries nothing about you and nothing about your documents. Your internet provider and our host can see that a computer at your address asked eppdf.com for a file, the same as for any other web request. Endpaper never installs an update by itself. It says one exists and waits.

5. Timestamps when you sign

If you sign with a certificate and you supply the address of a timestamp authority, Endpaper contacts that authority and sends a hash of the signature. It does not send the document or any part of it, and the authority cannot reconstruct your document from what it receives. Leave the field empty and no timestamp server is contacted.

6. The PDF engine, and something we switched off

Endpaper is built on a third-party PDF engine, Syncfusion Essential PDF. That engine ships a component capable of reporting usage to a cloud service, and the vendor enables it by default. Endpaper switches it off at startup, before anything else touches the engine. We are telling you this rather than staying quiet, because you cannot check a promise nobody told you needed making. Help, What leaves this machine, reads the engine's live state at the moment you look. If it ever reports that telemetry as on, that is a defect and we want to hear about it.

7. This website

  • Hosting. eppdf.com runs on a server operated by Alien Tech Services LLC. Like any web server it records the usual request log: an address, a time, and what was asked for. Logs are used to keep the site running and to find faults, and are deleted on a rolling basis. If you need the exact retention period for a due diligence questionnaire, ask and we will tell you what the server is set to.
  • Analytics. None. There is no analytics script, no tag manager and no advertising pixel on this site. If that ever changes, this page changes before the script goes live, not after.
  • Cookies. The site sets none. That is why there is no cookie banner.
  • Email. If you write to {MAIL} we keep the correspondence so we can answer you and keep a record of support. Ask us to delete a thread and we will.
  • Payments. There is no checkout on this site yet. When there is, a payment processor will handle the transaction and card details will go to them and never to us. The application contains no billing code, no card field and no checkout anywhere in its source.

8. What we have proved, and what we have not

Endpaper is built to behave as described here, and we check it from the inside. An automated test runs the real program after every build and fails if the engine's telemetry is on, or if any document it produces carries an evaluation banner.

We have not yet published an independent network capture. Until we do, the honest description of this page is that it states what Endpaper is built to do and what we have verified from within the software. It does not claim that a third party has watched the wire and confirmed it. If you need that confirmation before deploying Endpaper across a firm, ask, and we will tell you where the work stands rather than guess.

9. Children

Endpaper is a professional tool and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone of any age, because we do not collect information.

10. Your rights

Rights to see, correct or delete personal information only bite on information we hold. For the application there is none. For the website there are server logs and any email you send us. Write to {MAIL} and we will tell you what exists and remove what you ask us to remove, where we are not required to keep it.

11. Changes

If Endpaper ever begins sending something it does not send today, this page changes before the build that does it is released. The date at the top is how you tell.