11 comments

  • BloondAndDoom12 minutes ago
    This looks interesting, I’m looking for a good personal PDF editor that I can use in windows and private.<p>Seems like your product is more for organizations, any idea if such a thing exists. It seems like the market is full of bloated (Adobe&#x2F;foxit) or not properly working editors.
  • grassfedgeek41 minutes ago
    In the chat box I typed my SSN is &quot;123-45-6789&quot;. It filled it in in the wrong box (4 Exemptions).<p>What problem is this solving? Isn&#x27;t it easy enough to just click in the correct box and type the values?<p>How does this compare to Claude Cowork?
  • iamflimflam14 hours ago
    Might be worth making it clearer that the chat messages are going to a remote server. So any PII data is leaving the local machine.
    • nip4 hours ago
      I tried to make it clear with the popup message that appears when you start chatting: &quot;Public demo. Use sample data only. Messages are processed by the selected AI provider.&quot;<p>But you&#x27;re right that it&#x27;s not as evident as I wanted to, I&#x27;m making a small copy update to make it clearer: &quot;Public demo. Your chat messages leave your device and are sent to the selected AI provider. Use sample data only.&quot;<p>(Since there&#x27;s support for local models, the popup is only displayed when NOT using your own model)<p>Thanks!<p>EDIT: the copy update is live, thanks again!
  • nilirl2 hours ago
    One thing I&#x27;ve struggled with before is building a collection of data models based off of a collection of PDF forms.<p>I wanted to abstract away the PDF form building my own html form on top of a data model that can later be used to programmatically fill the PDF .<p>Since I had 100s of PDFs, I wanted an OCR+LLM pipeline to build a data model for each PDF. Unfortunately, OCR + LLM works ~90% of the time but sometimes fields are missed or mislabeled in the data model.<p>Does this sometimes get it wrong during programmatic filling? How do you deal with that?
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  • nip5 hours ago
    Just to be clear, this is a technical demo showing what&#x27;s possible with client-side tool calling + local models: LLM-assisted form filling where no document data has to leave the user&#x27;s machine.<p>Use cases range from:<p>- Filling foreign-language forms<p>- Navigating a contract before signing: &quot;can I trust ALL the clauses here?&quot;<p>- Pre-filling repetitive forms from existing data sources (CRM, EHR, etc. via MCP&#x2F;RAG)<p>Copilot is designed to be embedded; our customers ship it white-labeled inside their own products.
  • tyingq2 hours ago
    It is cool, but the demo is flawed, right at the second field:<p><pre><code> What&#x27;s the business name&#x2F;disregarded entity name, if different from above (line 2)? </code></pre> As far as I can tell, no way to skip this, leave it empty, not even &quot;use a space&quot;. And that field would be empty for many or most.
    • nip2 hours ago
      Have you tried telling the LLM to just skip the field and move to the next one?<p>I tried with various: &quot;Skip it&quot;, &quot;None, leave blank&quot;, &quot;Skip this field&quot; and all worked for me, but if may very well be missing something very obvious?
      • tyingq2 hours ago
        That would have occured to me if it were free-form chat, but it&#x27;s guided and telling me to input the value, not a chat response. Unable to try, third round hits the demo limit.
        • nip2 hours ago
          I was not able to reproduce it, so I made a small video, hopefully I better understand your problem once you&#x27;ve seen it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.simplepdf.com&#x2F;simple-pdf&#x2F;assets&#x2F;hn-reply-tyingq.mp4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.simplepdf.com&#x2F;simple-pdf&#x2F;assets&#x2F;hn-reply-tyingq....</a><p>In the video I let the chat fill my name, then have it skip the second field (business), then fill LLC, it makes a mistake and I correct it
  • grahammccain4 hours ago
    Keep going though. I’m definitely looking for something like this once we can get something secure we can use with proprietary and pii data.
    • FrasiertheLion3 hours ago
      This is the canonical use case for Tinfoil: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinfoil.sh&#x2F;inference">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinfoil.sh&#x2F;inference</a>. It provides verifiably private AI inference with frontier open source models: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.tinfoil.sh&#x2F;models&#x2F;overview">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.tinfoil.sh&#x2F;models&#x2F;overview</a><p>Disclaimer I&#x27;m the cofounder, only recommending it because it&#x27;s legitimately the right shape for your problem. The idea is that the model runs inside a secure enclave (using NVIDIA confidential computing), and the enclave code is open source and is verified via remote attestation upon connection: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.tinfoil.sh&#x2F;verification&#x2F;verification-in-tinfoil">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.tinfoil.sh&#x2F;verification&#x2F;verification-in-tinfoil</a>
    • nip4 hours ago
      Thanks!<p>Anything you see missing in Copilot to achieve that?<p>Not sure if you noticed, but there&#x27;s an arch-diagram in the info popup [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copilot.simplepdf.com&#x2F;?share=a7d00ad073c75a75d493228e6ff7b11eb3f2d945b6175913e87898ec96ca8076&amp;form=w9&amp;lang=en&amp;show=info" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copilot.simplepdf.com&#x2F;?share=a7d00ad073c75a75d493228...</a>
  • simianwords3 hours ago
    It looks cool but, how is this different from me uploading to chatgpt and asking it to fill in?
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  • kiney3 hours ago
    Does it support XFA forms?
    • nip3 hours ago
      Hey Kiney!<p>It supports AcroForms (like in the example) but not XFA.<p>Why are you asking? gov forms support?
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