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+ # Paquetes de corpus: llevan documentos dentro, cifrados, y no se versionan.
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+ *.mdcx
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+
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+ # Carpetas de trabajo.
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+ Input/
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+ Output/
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+ __pycache__/
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+ *.pyc
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+ cff-version: 1.2.0
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+ title: "mdcx: conversion verificada de expedientes documentales a Markdown consultable"
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+ message: "If you use this software in published work, please cite the entry below."
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+ type: software
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+ authors:
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+ - family-names: Ellena
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+ given-names: Jorge
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+ repository-code: "https://github.com/jorgell23-sys/mdcx"
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+ abstract: >-
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+ Converts complete document collections to Markdown, checking each file against
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+ the text the original actually exposes, packages the resulting corpus with its
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+ index and provenance into a single encrypted file, and exposes it to agents
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+ through the Model Context Protocol. Over a collection of 99 documents, answering
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+ one query through the package costs 435 model tokens against the 2,265,488
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+ required to read the originals.
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+ keywords:
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+ - document conversion
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+ - markdown
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+ - retrieval
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+ - model context protocol
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+ - provenance
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+ license: Apache-2.0
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+ version: 1.0.0
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+ date-released: "2026-08-19"
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+ mdcx
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+ Copyright 2026 Jorge Ellena G.
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+ This product includes software developed by Jorge Ellena G.
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+ Anyone redistributing this software, with or without modification, must retain this
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+ notice, as required by section 4 of the Apache 2.0 licence.
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+ HOW IT WAS WRITTEN
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+
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+ Conceived and directed by Jorge Ellena G.; programmed with the assistance of Claude
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+ (Anthropic). Every design decision in this package was made against measurements over a
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+ real document collection, and those measurements are recorded alongside the decisions
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+ they justify.
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+
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+ Copyright is held by Jorge Ellena G. Assistance from a tool does not create legal
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+ co-authorship, any more than a compiler or an editor does; it is declared here because it
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+ is accurate and because it is worth knowing how something one adopts was made.
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+
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+ DEPENDENCIES
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+
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+ The package relies on the following libraries, each under its own licence:
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+
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+ Docling y docling-core (IBM) MIT
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+ pypdfium2 BSD-3-Clause / Apache-2.0
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+ python-docx, openpyxl, python-pptx MIT
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+ onnxruntime, rapidocr-onnxruntime MIT / Apache-2.0
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+ cryptography Apache-2.0 / BSD-3-Clause
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+ mcp (Model Context Protocol SDK) MIT
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+
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+ PyMuPDF was deliberately avoided: its AGPL-3.0 licence would require any program using
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+ it to be published under AGPL, including one offered only as a network service.
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+ pypdfium2 covers the same needs without that condition.
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+ Metadata-Version: 2.5
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+ Name: mdcx
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+ Version: 1.0.0
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+ Summary: Convert document collections to verified Markdown, package them encrypted, and expose them to agents over MCP
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+ Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/jorgell23-sys/mdcx
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+ Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/jorgell23-sys/mdcx
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+ Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/jorgell23-sys/mdcx/issues
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+ Project-URL: Changelog, https://github.com/jorgell23-sys/mdcx/releases
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+ Author: Jorge Ellena G.
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+ License-Expression: Apache-2.0
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ License-File: NOTICE
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+ Keywords: document-conversion,markdown,mcp,provenance,rag,retrieval
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
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+ Classifier: Environment :: Console
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Legal Industry
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
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+ Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Office/Business
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Information Analysis
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Indexing
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: Markdown
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+ Classifier: Typing :: Typed
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.10
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+ Requires-Dist: cryptography>=41.0
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+ Provides-Extra: all
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+ Requires-Dist: docling>=2.0; extra == 'all'
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+ Requires-Dist: mcp>=1.0; extra == 'all'
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+ Requires-Dist: onnxruntime>=1.16; extra == 'all'
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+ Requires-Dist: openpyxl>=3.1; extra == 'all'
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+ Requires-Dist: pypdfium2>=4.0; extra == 'all'
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+ Requires-Dist: python-docx>=1.0; extra == 'all'
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+ Requires-Dist: python-pptx>=1.0; extra == 'all'
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+ Requires-Dist: rapidocr-onnxruntime>=1.3; extra == 'all'
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+ Provides-Extra: convert
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+ Requires-Dist: docling>=2.0; extra == 'convert'
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+ Requires-Dist: openpyxl>=3.1; extra == 'convert'
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+ Requires-Dist: pypdfium2>=4.0; extra == 'convert'
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+ Requires-Dist: python-docx>=1.0; extra == 'convert'
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+ Requires-Dist: python-pptx>=1.0; extra == 'convert'
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+ Provides-Extra: mcp
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+ Requires-Dist: mcp>=1.0; extra == 'mcp'
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+ Provides-Extra: ocr
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+ Requires-Dist: onnxruntime>=1.16; extra == 'ocr'
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+ Requires-Dist: rapidocr-onnxruntime>=1.3; extra == 'ocr'
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+
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+ # mdcx
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+
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+ <!-- mcp-name: io.github.jorgell23-sys/mdcx -->
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+
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+ Convert a document collection to verified Markdown, package it into a single
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+ encrypted file, and make it queryable by agents through the Model Context
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+ Protocol.
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+
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+ ## The problem
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+
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+ An agent answering questions about a document collection has two options. It can
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+ receive the documents in its context window, which is expensive and bounded by
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+ the window size. Or it can query a component that already knows where each item
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+ is.
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+
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+ Measuring one specific query — where the minimum pipe diameter to be modelled in
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+ 3D is stated — over a real collection of 99 documents and 180 MB, using the
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+ cl100k_base tokenizer:
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+
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+ | | Model tokens | Local tokens |
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+ |---|---|---|
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+ | Reading the originals | **2,265,488** | 2,265,327 |
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+ | Querying the package | **435** | 2,688,861 |
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+
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+ The 435 comprise 20 for the question, 274 for the retrieved passage and 141 for
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+ the answer.
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+
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+ The first row costs the entire collection for a concrete reason: a PDF cannot be
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+ searched, it is a binary, and without prior conversion there is no way to know
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+ which of the 99 documents holds the answer. They all have to be extracted and
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+ read.
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+
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+ This is one measurement, not an average: the saving depends on how much text an
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+ answer requires. What does not vary is the shape of the change. The work does not
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+ disappear, it moves from the context window — which is billed and finite — to the
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+ CPU, which is not. That is why the local column rises rather than falls.
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+
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+ ## The three stages
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+
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+ **Conversion.** Each document is converted to Markdown and checked against the
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+ text the original actually exposes, read with a library independent from the
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+ engine that performed the conversion. Content the structured engine omits is
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+ appended verbatim rather than reported as lost.
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+
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+ Over the collection used during development — 99 documents, 1,144,553 reference
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+ words — 594 words were not recovered, a global coverage of 99.948%. Of the 184
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+ documents exposing text, 116 came out at exactly 100% and none below 99.5%. The
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+ remaining four are scanned drawings containing no text at all in the file: they
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+ were read by optical character recognition and are marked as unverifiable,
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+ because no text original exists to measure them against.
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+
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+ **Packaging.** The corpus, its search index and the provenance of every passage
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+ fit into a single `.mdcx` file, encrypted with AES-256-GCM, whose header can be
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+ read without the key. From 8.8 MB of Markdown to 3.9 MB in one file.
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+
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+ **Retrieval.** A query returns the passages that answer it with their exact
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+ source. Over the 20 real queries used for tuning, the correct document appears
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+ within the top five results in 19 cases and within the top ten in all 20.
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+
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+ ## Installation
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+
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+ The package separates querying from conversion, because they have very different
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+ requirements.
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+
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+ | Command | Installs | Size |
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+ |---|---|---|
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+ | `pip install mdcx` | query and read `.mdcx` packages | ~10 MB |
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+ | `pip install "mdcx[mcp]"` | the above plus the MCP server | ~50 MB |
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+ | `pip install "mdcx[convert]"` | document conversion (Docling, PyTorch) | ~1.4 GB |
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+ | `pip install "mdcx[all]"` | everything, including OCR | ~1.5 GB |
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+
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+ Conversion is what pulls in the heavy dependencies. Someone who receives an
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+ `.mdcx` file and only needs to query it installs neither Docling nor PyTorch.
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+
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+ ## Converting a collection
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+
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+ ```
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+ pip install "mdcx[convert]"
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+ mdcx-convert --input ./Documents --output ./Documents_md
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+ ```
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+
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+ The output mirrors the input directory structure, adds a global index, and
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+ records for each file the coverage achieved against its original.
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+
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+ ## Packaging and querying
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+
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+ ```
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+ mdcx pack --output ./Documents_md --target corpus.mdcx --key "..."
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+ mdcx info corpus.mdcx
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+ mdcx search corpus.mdcx "where is the minimum diameter stated" --key "..."
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+ mdcx export corpus.mdcx --target ./restored --key "..."
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+ ```
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+
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+ `info` reads the header without the key, so the issuer and the integrity of a
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+ file can be checked before opening it. `export` rebuilds the original folder: a
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+ format that cannot be left is a trap, however well intended.
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+
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+ ## Using it as an MCP server
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+
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+ The server requires Python and this package. It does not require the conversion
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+ stack, so the footprint is about 50 MB.
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+
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+ ```json
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+ {
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+ "mcpServers": {
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+ "mdcx": {
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+ "command": "python",
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+ "args": ["-m", "mdcx.mcp_server"],
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+ "env": {
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+ "MDCX_FILE": "/path/to/corpus.mdcx",
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+ "MDCX_KEY": "package-key"
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+ }
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+ }
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+ }
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ Alternatively, with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) the server runs without a
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+ prior installation, which is the usual arrangement for Python MCP servers:
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+
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+ ```json
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+ {
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+ "mcpServers": {
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+ "mdcx": {
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+ "command": "uvx",
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+ "args": ["--from", "mdcx[mcp]", "python", "-m", "mdcx.mcp_server"],
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+ "env": {
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+ "MDCX_FILE": "/path/to/corpus.mdcx",
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+ "MDCX_KEY": "package-key"
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+ }
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+ }
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+ }
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ Three tools are exposed. `search` returns the passages answering a question, each
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+ with its source document and portable path. `info` describes the corpus and the
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+ fidelity of its conversion. `document` returns a full document when passages are
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+ not enough.
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+
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+ The server verifies the package before it starts listening, so a wrong path or
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+ key is reported immediately rather than on the first query.
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+
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+ ## Tests
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+
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+ ```
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+ pip install pytest
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+ python -m pytest tests/ -v
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+ ```
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+
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+ The suite covers hostile inputs: empty and corrupted files, names in other
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+ alphabets, malformed queries including SQL injection attempts, truncated and
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+ tampered packages, and compaction against content loss.
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+
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+ ## Paths
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+
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+ No output contains absolute paths. Every document is identified by a pseudopath
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+ beginning with `@/`, resolved against the folder or package containing it, so a
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+ corpus remains valid wherever it is stored: local disk, network share or cloud.
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+
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+ ## Signing
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+
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+ A package can be signed so that its issuer can be proven rather than merely
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+ declared. The signature covers the digest of the encrypted body, so it attests
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+ both origin and content, and is verified without the encryption key.
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+
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+ ```
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+ mdcx keygen
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+ mdcx pack --output ./Documents_md --target corpus.mdcx --key "..." \
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+ --issuer "Acme Ltd" --signing-key <private-key>
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+ mdcx verify corpus.mdcx --public-key <public-key>
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+ ```
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+
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+
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+ Verification also requires the body to be intact: a signature covering only the
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+ recorded digest would otherwise accept a package whose contents had been replaced
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+ while its header was left untouched.
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+
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+ The issuer field alone is free text and proves nothing. Only a signature does.
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+
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+ ## Encryption
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+
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+ The package encrypts at rest and decrypts in memory when opened; nothing is
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+ written to disk in clear. This protects a file in transit. It is not the same as
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+ searching over encrypted data without ever decrypting it, which is a separate
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+ field with documented leakage attacks and per-query costs measured in seconds.
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+ The key is derived with scrypt, which makes guessing slow: about 8 attempts per
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+ second, each requiring 32 MB of memory, which prevents parallelisation on a GPU.
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+ Even so, **the real strength is the passphrase**: a dictionary password falls in
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+ a day.
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+ ## Authorship
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+ Conceived and directed by **Jorge Ellena G.**, programmed with the assistance of
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+ Claude (Anthropic).
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+ Every decision in this package was made against measurements rather than
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+ convention: which conversion engine to use, which licence permits which, how to
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+ rank a search, which optimisations to accept and which to discard. Several were
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+ discarded precisely because they were measured — reducing the search candidate
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+ pool appeared to be ten times faster and in fact lowered accuracy from 19 to 17
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+ out of 20 — and those measurements are recorded alongside the decisions they
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+ justify.
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+ ## Licence
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+ Apache 2.0. The software may be used, modified and sold, provided the copyright
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+ notice is retained.
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+ PyMuPDF was deliberately avoided: its AGPL licence would require anyone using
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+ this software to publish their own under AGPL, including those offering it only
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+ as a network service.