Hacker News with Generative AI: Text Extraction

I built an extension that lets you extract text from anywhere to your clipboard (chromewebstore.google.com)
Extract text from any part of your browser screen using Esticra OCR.
Chrome Extensions, OCR, Productivity, Text Extraction, Web Development
6 points by mosmn 29 days ago | 4 comments
OlmOCR: Open-source tool to extract plain text from PDFs (allenai.org)
Open Source, OCR, PDF, Text Extraction, Software
313 points by eamag 37 days ago | 42 comments
Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for document text extraction (github.com/Goldziher)
Kreuzberg is a Python library for text extraction from documents. It provides a unified async interface for extracting text from PDFs, images, office documents, and more.
Python, Text Extraction, Open Source, Libraries, Asynchronous Programming
197 points by nhirschfeld 47 days ago | 75 comments
Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text? (ycombinator.com)
I like reading philosophy, particularly from the authors rather than a secondhand account.
Text Extraction, OCR, Philosophy, Digital Books
206 points by resource_waste 48 days ago | 108 comments
Show HN: PDF to MD by LLMs – Extract Text/Tables/Image Descriptives by GPT4o (github.com/yigitkonur)
Swift OCR: LLM Powered Fast OCR ⚡
Open Source, Language Models, OCR, Text Extraction
191 points by yigitkonur35 194 days ago | 91 comments
Extracting Words from Scanned Books: A Step-by-Step Tutorial with Python, OpenCV (github.com/feitgemel)
Computer Vision, Python, Text Extraction, Tutorials, OCR
20 points by thunderbong 323 days ago | 2 comments