Tag
PixelRAG is an open-source project from UC Berkeley SkyLab and other teams. By capturing web pages and PDFs as screenshots and using visual indexing for retrieval, it improves RAG accuracy and significantly reduces token costs for AI Agents.
Google Developers showcased using Gemini 3.7 Flash in Google AI Studio to transform a PDF annual report into an interactive web app, highlighting the model's data extraction and UI generation capabilities in a single prompt.
Google AI Devs demonstrated Gemini 3.7 Flash by using it to extract and classify plants from historical botanical PDFs with an interactive visualization.
Stirling-PDF is an open-source PDF processing platform offering 50+ tools (merge, split, OCR, compression, etc.), supporting browser use, Docker self-hosting, and a REST API, as well as a no-code automation pipeline. The project has 89k+ stars on GitHub and can be fully deployed locally to protect privacy.
Introduces a tool called book-to-skill that converts books or document packages into AI Agent callable Skills. It supports PDF and other formats, generates SKILL.md and chapter indexes, avoiding loading the full context at once.
A benchmark comparing vision-capable LLMs (native PDF reading) against OCR-based pipelines on 30 long, image-heavy PDFs finds that OCR with layout extraction still outperforms vision models on chart/table-heavy pages and has a 0% failure rate vs. 7% for native PDF, though the sample size is small and many gaps are within noise.
Synthadoc is an open-source tool that compiles PDFs, documents, and other project materials into a structured local Markdown wiki, automatically establishing cross-references and detecting contradictions. It is suitable for personal or small teams for offline knowledge management.
book-to-skill converts technical books into structured skills for Claude Code, allowing on-demand reference and eliminating hallucination.
olmOCR is an open-source toolkit using a fine-tuned vision language model to extract clean text from PDFs while preserving structure, optimized for large-scale batch processing.
MinerU is an open-source tool by OpenDataLab for extracting data from PDFs and documents.