Comment by qdotme

Yes! This is a very under-utilized concept, especially with client-side execution (WASM etc!)

Few years back, I built a proof-of-concept of a PDF data extraction utility, with the following characteristic - the "recipe" for extracting data from forms (think HIPAA etc) can be developed independently of confidential PDFs, signed by the server, and embedded in the URL on the client-side.

The client can work entirely offline (save the HTML to disk, airgap if you want!) off the "recipe" contained in the URL itself, process the data in WASM, all client-side. It can be trivially audited that the server does not receive any confidential information, but the software is still "web-based", "browser-based" and plays nice with the online IDE - on dummy data.

Found a working demo link - nothing gets sent to the server.

https://pdfrobots.com/robot/beta/#qNkfQYfYQOTZXShZ5J0Rw5IBgB...