Launching a text recognition service for 1/3rd the cost of Google Cloud Vision, Amazon Textract

Siftrics — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 20:36:18 +0000

Hi everyone!

Founder here. Our startup just launched a service that lets you POST images & PDFs and returns recognized text as JSON. That's right, we're attempting to compete with Google (ooh!) and Amazon (ahh!). The service is a direct competitor to their respective products, Vision and Textract, but comes at a third of the cost.

I know, you're probably thinking, "There's a catch, right? The accuracy must be lower, the service must be slower, something has got to be worse." But alas, none of that is true. Through lots of hard work and research, we have developed a secret sauce that lets us provide the same, high-quality service (yes, it can accurately recognize human handwriting --- sometimes even cursive).

If you're still unconvinced about the quality of our service, you can try it yourself! Everyone gets 1,000 pages for free.

By the way, if you're an expert in computer vision, distributed systems, or just enjoy programming in Go, please message me! We're expanding!

In case you missed the link in the first paragraph, here's our service: https://siftrics.com/

Query PDFs with SQL

Siftrics — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:31:05 +0000

Hi, everyone!

I made an app that lets you bulk-upload PDFs and then export recognized text as SQL, JSON, or CSVs.

You can see a video demonstration on the front page of the website: https://siftrics.com/

MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server are officially supported.

If you have any questions about the product itself or the engineering that makes it work, please ask!

Discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21649918
Discussion on /r/programming: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/e2jbhn/query_pdfs_with_sql_i_made_an_app_that_lets_you/

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Launching a text recognition service for 1/3rd the cost of Google Cloud Vision, Amazon Textract

Query PDFs with SQL