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CommonForms — open models to auto-detect PDF form fields
9 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 6 stories, 3 comments · first 2025-10-02 · latest 2026-05-02
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Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool callingstory by nip · 2026-05-02 · 29 comments
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Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool callingstory by nip · 2026-04-29 · 1 comment
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Super interesting. Would you be willing to try the Python package ( https://github.com/jbarrow/commonforms ) or share the PDFs? For the non-ONNX models there are some inference tricks that generally improve performance, and potentially…
comment by jbarrow · 2025-10-20 · in Show HN: Browser-based PDF form fields detection (YOLO-based) -
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Show HN: Browser-based PDF form fields detection (YOLO-based)story by nip · 2025-10-19 · 3 comments
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…fields should go and makes PDFs fillable: https://detect.semanticdocs.org/ Code and models are at: https://github.com/jbarrow/commonforms That’s built on a dataset and paper I wrote called CommonForms, where I scraped CommonCrawl for…
comment by jbarrow · 2025-10-13 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025) -
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CommonForms – open models to auto-detect PDF form fieldsstory by Brajeshwar · 2025-10-12 · 0 comments
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Convert any PDF into a fillable formstory by nuwandavek · 2025-10-11 · 0 comments
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…and (imo most importantly) simple/convenient tooling to automatically prepare any PDF. Links: Repo: https://github.com/jbarrow/commonforms - Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16506
comment by jbarrow · 2025-10-02 · in Show HN: CommonForms – open models to auto-detect PDF form fields -
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Show HN: CommonForms – open models to auto-detect PDF form fieldsstory by jbarrow · 2025-10-02 · 1 comment