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# Description of Changes Add a backend for running any multi-step PDF operations. This is designed to be used for the upcoming Policies feature, along with anything else that will require automated running of PDF operations, like the Automate tool or Processing Folders. The implementation is not complete. I've tried to get all the infrastructure in there so that we can add in whichever triggers we need in the future (like cron triggers or watching folders on disk) but currently it just supports manual triggering of the policy. The basis of this work was the operation running from the Stirling Engine, which this PR removes in favour of this new system. The only currently accessible frontend way to test this work is to ask the AI chat to execute multiple operations on a PDF, but I've also extensively tested with direct API calls to make sure that the policies work and persist properly.
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