Ask HN: What's the best way to extract text from information dense pdfs?
1•rkwz•5mo ago
Examples for PDFs: Pitch Decks, Annual Reports etc which have text, charts, tables etc.
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incomingpain•5mo ago
Obviously all the big named online AI will do this trivially. Upload file, ask for everything you want in whatever format you want. If I were doing it: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr
To do it offline due to privacy, vision enabled LLM. Biggest Gemma you can handle, qwen2.5 vl, or Mistral small. I'd probably choose mistral.
incomingpain•5mo ago
To do it offline due to privacy, vision enabled LLM. Biggest Gemma you can handle, qwen2.5 vl, or Mistral small. I'd probably choose mistral.
Openwebui does pdfs built in. https://docs.openwebui.com/features/document-extraction/
TBH havent tried it myself but I bet it works.