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Re: Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?

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Post by Kikobeats » Fri, Jun 07, 2024, 1:49 PM UTC

You can use Microlink to turn PDF into HTML, and combine it with other service for processing the text data.

Here an example turning a arxiv paper into real text:

https://api.microlink.io/?data.html.selector=html&embed=html...

It looks like PDF, but it you open devtools you can see it's actually a very precise HTML representation.

Re: Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?

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Post by ssahoo » Sat, Jun 08, 2024, 2:43 PM UTC

This could be a humor or real hack.

Get a copilot PC with recall enabled and quickly scan through the documents by opening in Adobe acrobat reader. Voillla! You will have an sqlite dB that has your index. Few days later, Adobe could have your data in their llm.

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