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nip

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About nip

Founder of SimplePDF.com

Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands

benjamin [d o t] ee

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    Comment #48123573

    > like that, but (and I might be ignorant) can't you just change it's all in browser to something else and the users would be oblivious? Excellent question! The answer is simple: w…

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    Comment #48123494

    Thanks! We have plans to improve it further (file support), possibly also voice, but for now in the backlog!

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    Comment #48086003

    And if you’re French, don’t worry, you didn’t miss it. It’s the 31st of May

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    Comment #47995318

    Thanks! You caught a real bug: the form labels fed to the LLM were mangled. Now fixed: values land in the correct field. On "what are we trying to solve": Forms (PDFs, scanned pape…

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    Comment #47988785

    Absolutely not insulting! In fact an excellent question! Preview was an inspiration when I started SimplePDF, my goal was to make the "Preview" of the web, so that people without a…

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    Comment #47988736

    It already does! More specifically, SimplePDF supports "WebMCP": the tools that the LLM is using are exposed as WebMCP tools

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    Comment #47987011

    We offer both: - A privacy-focused PDF editor, free for individuals, used by 200k users monthly: https://simplepdf.com/editor - The same editor, embeddable into one’s app for compa…

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    Comment #47986007

    I was not able to reproduce it, so I made a small video, hopefully I better understand your problem once you've seen it: https://cdn.simplepdf.com/simple-pdf/assets/hn-reply-tyingq…

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    Comment #47985897

    Have you tried telling the LLM to just skip the field and move to the next one? I tried with various: "Skip it", "None, leave blank", "Skip this field" and all worked for me, but i…

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    Comment #47985597

    Hey Kiney! It supports AcroForms (like in the example) but not XFA. Why are you asking? gov forms support?

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    Comment #47985094

    Thanks! Anything you see missing in Copilot to achieve that? Not sure if you noticed, but there's an arch-diagram in the info popup [1]. [1] https://copilot.simplepdf.com/?share=a7…

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    Comment #47985017

    I tried to make it clear with the popup message that appears when you start chatting: "Public demo. Use sample data only. Messages are processed by the selected AI provider." But y…

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    Comment #47984790

    Just to be clear, this is a technical demo showing what's possible with client-side tool calling + local models: LLM-assisted form filling where no document data has to leave the u…

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    Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling

    Hey HN! I built SimplePDF Copilot: an AI assistant that can interact with the PDF editor. It fills fields, answers questions, focuses on a specific field, adds fields, deletes page…

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    Comment #47947591

    Just to be clear, this is a technical demo showing what's possible with client-side tool calling + local models: LLM-assisted form filling where no document data has to leave the u…

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    Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling

    Hey HN! I built SimplePDF Copilot: an AI assistant that can interact with the PDF editor. It fills fields, answers questions, focuses on a specific field, adds fields, deletes page…

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    Comment #47790354

    Very likely, but you don’t need to be so aggressive and dismissive. Anyone who has achieved “distribution” knows. Anyone else is just lacking experience. Answering like you did is …

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    Comment #47723730

    I was approached twice to add « a search and tracking script » to my 35k+ user-based extension. Now I know what would have happened if I had accepted.

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    Comment #47648719

    Agree on Smart-ID but the answer is to fix those flaws, not to replace the entire approach with one that depends on Google Play Integrity verdicts that even the German architects a…

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    Comment #47648320

    It is, mandated by the EU commission. Instead they could have mandated the use of eIDAS 1 to all countries + extend it with attribute/credential support, and let countries choose t…

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    Comment #47648110

    I’m sorry to lash out at you but I keep getting disappointed in European countries (more precisely the ever disappointing EU commission) all suffering of the NIH syndrome instead o…