Show HN: Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally(sygal.app)
31 pointsby cyrillsemah6 hours ago8 comments
  • axm9974 hours ago
    https://github.com/amitxm/AIDocPrep is the one I built that is true local OCR. I made sure there is NO internet use, even accidentally. Also, added redaction.
  • kennywinker3 hours ago
    Seems like it sends your documents to the LLM of your choice. In what world is that “locally”??
    • MrDrMcCoy2 hours ago
      LLMs have been self-hostable for a while now.
  • cameronbedard5 hours ago
    How does this differ from open source cli tools such as Marker (https://github.com/datalab-to/marker)?

    Also, it seems disingenuous to have “locally” in the title when your default is cloud inference providers and I don't see you naming a recommended LLM that could be hosted locally and is proven to work well for this task. You list “Your files” under “Stays on your machine” and then require an API key for a cloud provider.

    • mrkn13 hours ago
      Worth noting there’s also textsnap if you want something that’s actually local end-to-end via ONNX on CPU, no GPU, no API key, nothing leaves your machine. https://github.com/kouhxp/textsnap
    • bbor5 hours ago
      Shoutout to marker-2. By far the best OCR system, IME. The amount of annoying little edge cases they know about and cover for you is dizzying
    • cyrillsemah5 hours ago
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  • Benard-dev6 hours ago
    I am also building an app that converts web pages to Markdown. How do you handle messy scans and tables?
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  • cachius4 hours ago
    As a service: https://into.md/
  • cyrillsemah6 hours ago
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