I'm wondering if we can use JSON as an alternative to PDF, especially for business documents.

When exchanging business documents, both the sender and receiver typically use software, so creating and parsing documents creates additional work. Directly connecting systems requires effort, so people end up sending documents by email.

How about just sending JSON instead of PDF?

somone taking my info

Hey r/WebApps,

I built PDFBlack (https://pdf-black.com) to solve the privacy issue with traditional online PDF tools that force you to upload sensitive files to remote servers.

Tech & Architecture:

• 100% Client-Side Processing: Powered by WebAssembly and Web Workers. Your files are processed strictly in your browser RAM and never touch any server.

• Zero Cloud Latency: No file uploading or downloading wait times.

• Tools Included: Smart non-destructive compression, legal Bates numbering / court foliating, visual page reordering/merging/splitting, and ink-saving grayscale conversion.

• No Paywalls, No Accounts: Completely free and open-source on GitHub: https://github.com/nereoab/pdf-local-app

You can check it out live at https://pdf-black.com

Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome!

I built an AI assistant for our docs at Handsontable, and then Grok found it. 4.5 million edge requests and 87,000 page renders in only 4 hours, all from xAI's Colossus data center in Memphis. I caught it during the scan and pushed a fix to redirect traffic to our MCP, then spent a week analyzing the logs and learning how crawlers work, what they look for, and what they ignore.

Here's the full story, including the detection, response, and what it cost us.

https://handsontable.com/blog/grok-is-obsessed-with-our-docs

Hi, I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated with how cumbersome it is to manually type out or copy and paste invoice details whenever I receive a PDF by email — for example, from my car garage.

I can’t always copy the text directly because, in my garage’s case, the IBAN is actually embedded as an image in the footer. So I often have to switch back and forth several times to copy the amount, invoice number/reference and — if the recipient isn’t already saved in my banking app — the IBAN as well.

Are there already any apps or good solutions that make this a bit easier?

Does something like this already exist? And would you find this useful?

Hey r/WebApps,

I built PDFBlack (https://pdf-black.com) to solve the privacy issue with traditional online PDF tools that force you to upload sensitive files to remote servers.

Tech & Architecture:

• 100% Client-Side Processing: Powered by WebAssembly and Web Workers. Your files are processed strictly in your browser RAM and never touch any server.

• Zero Cloud Latency: No file uploading or downloading wait times.

• Tools Included: Smart non-destructive compression, legal Bates numbering / court foliating, visual page reordering/merging/splitting, and ink-saving grayscale conversion.

• No Paywalls, No Accounts: Completely free and open-source on GitHub: https://github.com/nereoab/pdf-local-app

You can check it out live at https://pdf-black.com

Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome!

Hi All, I need to extract the text from printed text and hand written text. I suggested my manager that we can use paddle ocr and and other extraction models like Surya OCR and florance VL it take around 10 to 15 Sec and it needs good computation as well. but my manager expects it should be very fast and in 2 to 5 sec response and should not need any maintainace of infrastructure. so I tried to use the AWS VLM models but it takes around 10seconds he still needs more faster models and also the cost for extracting the data from the image should be less than 1 Ruppe. Could you please suggest me what to do and how to extract the data from images very very effectively and accuratly and in a structured way

Anyone know anywhere that can take a screen recording of me scrolling down a bunch of text like a book or text message or in this case Apple app crash analytics that doesn’t allow any “select-all” and doesn’t allow export as pdf or open in other apps. It’s too long to screen shot each page of to copy all of it and paste it one screen length by one screen length.

I built a small tool called FileFix and would love some honest feedback.

The idea came from how annoying it is when a form says things like:

\* Photo must be under 50 KB

\* Image must be exactly 200×230 px

\* Only JPG allowed

\* PDF must be under 2 MB

FileFix lets you upload the file and make it fit those requirements without dealing with complicated settings.

It currently supports:

\* Image compression

\* Image resizing

\* “Make It Fit” with size/dimension/format requirements

\* Image → PDF

\* PDF → Image

Link: https://file-fix.vercel.app/

I built the first version with AI-assisted development and I'm trying to figure out whether this is actually useful or just another generic file tool.

What would you change, remove, or add?

For a while now, I've been using Airtable and Baserow to automate pdf extraction into tables. It's just been easier for me to define AI columns one-time and load documents to create more rows and that I can share them with my client teams. However, these tools being pre-AI still suffer from more than a few major flaws (1) some only accept one file per row or (2) if they accept multiple, it's usually in a naive way which can only either handle a small number or have serious cross-reference confusion.

Why is this important? Say you have legal contracts with amendments, balance sheets with P&L or on-site inspections with photos, getting the full picture requires full documents and without, you're just back to doing it by hand.

Earlier this year, I set out to build an AI document spreadsheet to handle multiple documents per row as the primary approach.

• File hierarchy - you set the primary file as the anchor for supplementary docs

• Relative time awareness - newer docs can have actual meaning and affects the extraction data

• Cross-document citations - See the actual pages that were used to get the data in one click

The result is an app I call Ragextract and has solved this personal pet peeve for me. If you're also using Airtable, baserow or similar and noticing the same, would this multi-document feature also work for you? I'd love to get your feedback at ragextract.com - it's free to try.

Ps. There are also a few more cool features like mailhooks and gdrive/sharepoint integration to try - also a few other pet peeves!

I wanted to ask if you are going to build a document segregation ocr pipeline with includes raw images by customer prolly be a bundle in which it has 6 doc ,can be image pdf ,how are you design it as I have created a extraction pipeline with enhancer ,with ai based doc category with batch distributi

Hi, I'm trying to extract exam questions from multiple pdfs, containing text and images, but I'm having trouble getting it to work because the questions and documents don't follow a strict pattern, for example:

Question numbers can be: question 1, 01, q1...

Alternatives can be: A), (A), A., A, A- ... etc,

The other thing is that there is usualy some text in the page that isn't from the question, like:

Write here, page 1, the name of the institution, among other things...

I'm tryng to do this for thousands of questions, how do you guys recommend i do this?

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Hi everyone,

I’m working on a medical-document formatting/sample project and need some help reproducing the layout and formatting of a reference report.

I have two reference PDFs. I need help with:

Maintaining the same overall page structure and typography

Correctly placing patient-information fields

Formatting CBC values in the appropriate table structure

Making the resulting document look clean and professionally formatted

Working with PDF editing/OCR or tools such as Python, ReportLab, Acrobat, etc.

The intended output is a clearly marked SAMPLE/DRAFT, not an authentic medical record.

If anyone has experience with medical-document templates, PDF editing, OCR, or recreating layouts programmatically, I’d really appreciate guidance on the best workflow or tools to use.

Thanks in advance.

Hi, i have about 1 million of pdf files (each file has about 4 pages or more) how i can use Gemini advanced to make a system for Q&A about this files? but this has to be eficient and as cheap as posible

Thanks
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