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Re: Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools

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Post by number6 »

jart wrote: post #25
yreg wrote: post #18

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I'm not able to use this on TempleOS, please fix.

Yes but they claim it runs on Linux when it runs on Systemd.

What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux plus Systemd. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities, and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project, and now increasingly integrated with Systemd, the init system that brings everything together - or apart, depending on who you ask.There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system and now, almost inseparably, with Systemd: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux and Systemd added, or GNU/Linux/Systemd. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux/Systemd

Re: Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools

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Post by rolisz »

lhuser123 wrote: post #23
d7y wrote: post #4

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Great questions. > 1. Does chat-with-pdfs function work with scanned PDFs? Not yet. We don't do OCR or anything to extract text from images yet. But that would be an awesome feature, so we would love to add it in the future. > 2. In the video example for chat-with-pdfs you show uploading a document interactively. The part of processing is quite slow. Can the tool be fed these documents offline as well? Not as of righ…

I haven't found an OCR tool reliable enough when it comes to scanned PDFs containing financial data where accuracy of amounts in the document is very important.

Have you tried Azure Document Intelligence? I've had very good results with it.

Re: Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools

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Post by vunderba »

SubiculumCode wrote: post #24
vunderba wrote: post #5

Great job. This is a relatively crowded area, particularly RAG style chat systems. It might be nice for SecureAI to call out what makes their product different from other open source players in the same space, specifically Khoj and Danswer, both of which allow you to chat with your documents, offer network authentication, and allow you to plug in your own LLM. Danswer https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer Khoj https:…

Do you happen to know of some that have been integrated into a slack chatbot?

I've definitely seen a few that can do this, they're mainly positioned as automatic assistance for technical support.

Danswer has a slack connector, so it might be what you're looking for.

Re: Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools

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Post by glerk »

hifreq wrote: post #32

I couldn't find this info in the readme... does this tool anonymize ChatGPT requests? What does it mean that it's a private an secure tool in the context of using ChatGPT?

My understanding is that this doesn't use ChatGPT at all for the "private and secure" case. It is running LLM models locally using ollama and just provides a ChatGPT-like interface.

Re: Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools

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Post by willi59549879 »

hifreq wrote: post #32

I couldn't find this info in the readme... does this tool anonymize ChatGPT requests? What does it mean that it's a private an secure tool in the context of using ChatGPT?

it runs an llm in a docker container. doesn't send any requests to chatgpt

Re: Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools

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Post by oaththrowaway »

mikeytown2 wrote: post #30

What LLM is best for giving it your entire code base and database structure and then using it to help with your project?

Maybe Refact? They have a self hosted version that can index your repos. They have their own LLM or you can use others. Nice tooling for VS Code as well

Re: Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools

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Post by stuzenz »

testernews wrote: post #19
yreg wrote: post #18

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I'm not able to use this on TempleOS, please fix.

this doesn’t work on Nix, pls fix

I also use NixOS, but if the target was not NixOS, I don't think you should be requesting the set up as needing fixing by the author. It just doesn't sound right - or maybe it is just me. NixOS isn't the defacto standard, and breaks the Linux FHS to achieve all the good stuff it does do.

Either try to package it or use a docker image or maybe raise an issue noting the blocker and request it as a feature for some changes to give an easier path for to having it build more easily for NixOS

Apart from that, as expected, the docker image that is produced following the instructions is working fine with NixOS as host. All it needed for the build was the openssl packaged on the host.

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