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OCR & Document Extraction using vision models

17 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 4 stories, 13 comments · first 2024-07-23 · latest 2026-03-02

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  1. …work on: 1. Wrangling messy PDFs into usable data (we built a major open-source extraction library: https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox ) 2. Aggregating millions of datapoints from 50+ public sources (UCCs, liens, licenses, tax records) +…
    comment by themanmaran · 2026-03-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
  2. …work on: 1. Wrangling messy PDFs into usable data (we built a major open-source extraction library: https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox ) 2. Aggregating millions of datapoints from 50+ public sources (UCCs, liens, licenses, tax records) +…
    comment by themanmaran · 2026-02-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
  3. …work on: 1. Wrangling messy PDFs into usable data (we built a major open-source extraction library: https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox ) 2. Aggregating millions of datapoints from 50+ public sources (UCCs, liens, licenses, tax records) +…
    comment by themanmaran · 2026-01-03 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
  4. …work on: 1. Wrangling messy PDFs into usable data (we built a major open-source extraction library: https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox ) 2. Aggregating millions of datapoints from 50+ public sources (UCCs, liens, licenses, tax records) +…
    comment by themanmaran · 2025-12-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
  5. …into pages, sending to an LLM of your choice, and getting it back into a structured markdown file: https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox I haven’t used it yet, since my use case ended up not needing more than just sending to an LLM directly.
    comment by rpicard · 2025-02-16 · in Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?
  6. …thats not accepted yet for some reason that seems to be having some success with the bounding boxes https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox/pull/44 Related to https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox/issues/7
    comment by Jimmc414 · 2025-02-05 · in Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
  7. …build the best OCR / document extraction on the planet! You can check out our open source library [ https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox ]. Or try out our in house model [ https://getomni.ai/ocr-demo ]. The main things we spend our time on:…
    comment by themanmaran · 2025-01-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
  8. …of forking. You could do a lot by restoring attribution. Your history would look the same as https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox/commits/main/ and diverge from where you forked. People are getting upset because this is not a nice thing to…
    comment by ankenyr · 2024-11-22 · in Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data
  9. Your license is copied verbatim, as your license requires https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/DocumindHQ/documind/blob/main/core/LICENS... They fulfilled the 1 requirement you asked of them.
    comment by its-summertime · 2024-11-19 · in Documind ripped our open source tool and swapped the license
  10. …it's a verbatim copy. They literally just renamed the ZeroxOutput to DocumindOutput [2][3] [1] https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox [2] https://github.com/DocumindHQ/documind/blob/main/core/src/ty... [3]…
    comment by themanmaran · 2024-11-18 · in Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data
  11. …on my desktop browser -- no onClick triggered [1] https://facebookresearch.github.io/nougat/ [2] https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox [3] https://www.together.ai/products#custom-models
    comment by bbor · 2024-11-16 · in Llama-OCR: Document to Markdown
  12. Zerox [0] was featured on here recently and does the exact same thing [0] https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox
    comment by jdthedisciple · 2024-09-22 · in Show HN: PDF to MD by LLMs – Extract Text/Tables/Image Descriptives by GPT4o
  13. …and I found it to work fantastically well) Would be curious about comparisons between these. [0] https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox
    comment by jdthedisciple · 2024-08-09 · in Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs