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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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  1. 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)
  2. …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)
  3. …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