Show HN: Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally

 (sygal.app)

11 points | by cyrillsemah 1 hour ago

4 comments

  • cameronbedard 12 minutes 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.

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    • bbor 2 minutes 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
    • cyrillsemah 0 minutes ago
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  • Benard-dev 38 minutes 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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  • cyrillsemah 1 hour ago
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