Hacker News with Generative AI: Text Extraction

PDF to Text, a challenging problem (marginalia.nu)
The search engine has recently gained the ability to index the PDF file format. The change will deploy over a few months.
Search Engines, PDF, Text Extraction
356 points by ingve 10 days ago | 200 comments
Show HN: SnipFast – Extract Highlighted Text from Physical Books (snipfa.st)
Software, Tools, OCR, Text Extraction, Books
10 points by tomsaju 28 days ago | 0 comments
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 79 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 87 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 97 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 98 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 244 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 373 days ago | 2 comments