Show HN: Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally
15 points by cyrillsemah 3 hours ago | 3 comments

Benard-dev 2 hours ago
I am also building an app that converts web pages to Markdown. How do you handle messy scans and tables?
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cyrillsemah 44 minutes ago
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cameronbedard 56 minutes ago
How does this differ from open source cli tools such as Marker (https://github.com/datalab-to/marker)?

Also, it seems disingenuous to have “locally” in the title when your default is cloud inference providers and I don't see you naming a recommended LLM that could be hosted locally and is proven to work well for this task. You list “Your files” under “Stays on your machine” and then require an API key for a cloud provider.

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bbor 45 minutes ago
Shoutout to marker-2. By far the best OCR system, IME. The amount of annoying little edge cases they know about and cover for you is dizzying
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cyrillsemah 43 minutes ago
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cyrillsemah 2 hours ago
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