Hacker News with Generative AI: Document Processing

Auntie PDF – an open source app built using Mistral OCR (auntiepdf.com)
Your all-knowing guide that unpacks every PDF into clear, actionable insights. Just like your favorite aunt, but for documents!
Open Source, OCR, Document Processing, PDF, Artificial Intelligence
95 points by bilater 23 hours ago | 39 comments
Show HN: Open-Source DocumentAI with Ollama (rlama.dev)
A powerful document question-answering tool that connects to your local Ollama models. Create, manage, and interact with RAG systems for all your document needs.
Open Source, AI, Document Processing, RAG Systems
262 points by Dontizi 1 day ago | 32 comments
LyX is 30 years old (wikipedia.org)
LyX (styled as LYX; pronounced [ˈlɪks][3]) is an open source, graphical user interface document processor based on the LaTeX typesetting system.
Software, Open Source, LaTeX, Document Processing
5 points by CharlesW 9 days ago | 1 comments
The Modern Document Processing Stack (github.com/marcelmarais)
This is a production-ready document conversion and processing engine (and primarily a wrapper of other tools). It uses open-source libraries to convert common file formats (PDF, DOCX, etc.) and web content to Markdown—a format that is friendly for LLMs and embedding models.
Document Processing, Open Source, LLMs, Markdown, File Conversion
9 points by marcelmarais 34 days ago | 4 comments
Build Your Own AI-Powered Document Chatbot in Minutes with Simple RAG (ycombinator.com)
Build Your Own AI-Powered Document Chatbot in Minutes with Simple RAG!
AI, Chatbots, Document Processing
4 points by myrigole 74 days ago | 5 comments
Liberate tabular data from scanned documents (blog.wzb.eu)
During the last months I often had to deal with the problem of extracting tabular data from scanned documents.
Data Extraction, OCR, Document Processing
6 points by leonry 80 days ago | 0 comments
From PDFs to AI-ready structured data: a deep dive (explosion.ai)
PDFs are ubiquitous in industry and daily life. Paper is scanned, documents are sent and received as PDF, and they’re often kept as the archival copy. Unfortunately, processing PDFs is hard. In this blog post, I’ll present a new modular workflow for converting PDFs and similar documents to structured data and show how to build end-to-end document understanding and information extraction pipelines for industry use cases.
Data Science, AI, Machine Learning, Document Processing
23 points by will-burner 96 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data (github.com/DocumindHQ)
Open-source, AI, Data Extraction, Document Processing, Software
169 points by Tammilore 111 days ago | 64 comments
Launch HN: Midship (YC S24) – Turn PDFs, docs, and images into usable data (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN, we are Max, Kieran, and Aahel from Midship (https://midship.ai). Midship makes it easy to extract data from unstructured documents like pdfs and images.
YC Startups, Data Extraction, Document Processing, AI, Software
121 points by maxmaio 122 days ago | 61 comments
Docling parses documents and exports them to desired format with ease and speed (ds4sd.github.io)
Docling parses documents and exports them to the desired format with ease and speed.
Document Processing, Software, Programming, Tools
13 points by zdw 126 days ago | 1 comments