If you're so keen on the open source aspect, could you make the sources of your website and the tools involved, too? Otherwise there is no use to it
I have a lot of similar tools and it's all Open Source: https://mitta.ai
I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
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Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
#72Unfortunately, most of the PDF work I do involves things I’m not uploading to a service - ever. I don’t care if they’re “deleted immediately after processing” - they left my control. This sort of software would be great if it were 100% offline. This isn’t just a niche issue either: this is a very real consideration for any corporate user. More companies are taking data loss and security issues seriously, which often…
I work at https://www.pdf-tools.com and we hear this again and again. Despite the proliferation of cloud services, most large enterprises DO NOT want their sensitive documents entering the cloud. And in some cases, e.g. patient medical records, there are strict regulations about how those documents can be stored, which means on-premise is a requirement. Good news for us, as that's what we specialise in, but also perp…
Looks interesting.
However, the pricing page with no actual numbers and the ambiguous ‘Contact Us’ is a huge turn off.
I cannot stand the dance with business people who want to have a bunch of calls and meetings to know how big a company they’re dealing with is before they decide on a good rate to gouge them.
Pricing pages should be straight forward. Have tiers if you want to cover your rear but only at the limit of usage have the ‘Contact Us’ option.
I’m shopping around for a PDF solution and would’ve recommended this to my manager but I’m not willing to do more meetings to get quotes.
Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
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I’m surprised everyone is using Tesseract. It was the only game in town 10 years ago, and it’s Ok on cleaned aligned data, but there are a few newer ones like EasyOCR [0] that can deal with much less organized text (albeit more slowly) [0] https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR
EasyOCR looks like it's more focused on the mobile use case of extract text from photos. That's a little bit different from extracting text from scanned documents, where document structure is an important aspect, and Tesseract is the devil we know. In the commercial space ABBYY Finereader still dominates - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBYY_FineReader But perhaps I'm wrong...
ABBYY does indeed dominate, but Google Document AI is making inroads.
Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
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I'd like if there's more details on the open source software used.
i used open source solutions to built it, like libreoffice, ghostscript, google's tesseract and a bunch of other tools, Google's Tesseract: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
Careful with the Ghostscript AGPL licensing if you plan to make a commercial product that uses it.
Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
#75I have 85,000 PDF documents, collected over a few decades. What I really want is a semantic interface to those PDF documents. Find me "all PDF files which mention ", or "show me any PDF with python example code", or "all PDF's before 2011 on the subject of coding standards for SIL-4". I keep thinking this is out there somewhere, but whenever something new comes along I get bogged down in the details of setting it up.…
You can do this locally with your favourite LLM and Open WebUI:
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui
Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
#76Unfortunately, most of the PDF work I do involves things I’m not uploading to a service - ever. I don’t care if they’re “deleted immediately after processing” - they left my control. This sort of software would be great if it were 100% offline. This isn’t just a niche issue either: this is a very real consideration for any corporate user. More companies are taking data loss and security issues seriously, which often…
I work at https://www.pdf-tools.com and we hear this again and again. Despite the proliferation of cloud services, most large enterprises DO NOT want their sensitive documents entering the cloud. And in some cases, e.g. patient medical records, there are strict regulations about how those documents can be stored, which means on-premise is a requirement. Good news for us, as that's what we specialise in, but also perp…
Large enterprises can afford to take things in house and might even save money that way, not to mention the security gains. Medical offices have no choice. However small companies often don't have anyone in IT (other than the CEO who does everything and only rarely knows what he is doing other than the niche the company is in). These should be the prime market for tools like this - just pay us a little bit and we will worry about he details for you - everything is backed up. However if you can get one enterprise account that is a lot more money than thousands of little accounts and so everyone focuses on them anyway.
Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
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If that's your paranoia level: How do you know the "offline" tool you're using is not uploading to a server? Possibly inadvertently in the course of bug reports, or surreptitiously while contacting the license server...? Should security concerns really warrant not trusting the (reputable) vendor that the files are not being uploaded, you would need to do some sort of audit and/or run in an isolated environment and wo…
You can easily block network access for an app on Windows using Windows Firewall. Same on a few Android skins such as MIUI by Xiaomi
same is true for Chrome Browser, open dev tools and select Network to "Offline"
Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work at https://www.pdf-tools.com and we hear this again and again. Despite the proliferation of cloud services, most large enterprises DO NOT want their sensitive documents entering the cloud. And in some cases, e.g. patient medical records, there are strict regulations about how those documents can be stored, which means on-premise is a requirement. Good news for us, as that's what we specialise in, but also perp…
Looks interesting. However, the pricing page with no actual numbers and the ambiguous ‘Contact Us’ is a huge turn off. I cannot stand the dance with business people who want to have a bunch of calls and meetings to know how big a company they’re dealing with is before they decide on a good rate to gouge them. Pricing pages should be straight forward. Have tiers if you want to cover your rear but only at the limit of…
> the ambiguous ‘Contact Us’ is a huge turn off
Same. About three years ago we introduced a company wide policy to not buy anything where the price is not known. So, so much time (money) being wasted on figuring out the actual costs, the offering would have to be really inexpensive to make up for this. And if that were the case, the price would be right there.
Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
#79Unfortunately, most of the PDF work I do involves things I’m not uploading to a service - ever. I don’t care if they’re “deleted immediately after processing” - they left my control. This sort of software would be great if it were 100% offline. This isn’t just a niche issue either: this is a very real consideration for any corporate user. More companies are taking data loss and security issues seriously, which often…
In that case, you can use https://www.pdftool.org/ , which runs in the browser but offline and never uploads your files to any server.
Is is OpenSource ?
Can it be run as docker pull; docker run ?
If this is an option then use can make sure it will work offline..
Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work at https://www.pdf-tools.com and we hear this again and again. Despite the proliferation of cloud services, most large enterprises DO NOT want their sensitive documents entering the cloud. And in some cases, e.g. patient medical records, there are strict regulations about how those documents can be stored, which means on-premise is a requirement. Good news for us, as that's what we specialise in, but also perp…
No PHP nor JavaScript SDK? You guys don't like money?
PHP and Javascript? So you never worked on "enterprise"?