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About nip
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 #47994750
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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 #47879194
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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…