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24 alternatives to l1m.io

The simplest API to get structured data from any LLM

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    Hey HN! After struggling with complex prompt engineering and unreliable parsing, we built L1M, a simple API that lets you extract structured data from unstructured text and images. curl -X POST https://api.l1m.io/structured \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "X-Provider-Url: demo" \ -H "X-Provider-Key: demo" \ -H "X-Provider-Model: demo" \ -d '{ "input": "A particularly severe crisis in 1907 led Congress to enact the Federal Reserve Act in 1913", "schema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "items": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "properties": {…

    2025 · l1m.io · its alternatives →

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    Turn any webpage into structured data using LLMs. Contribute to mishushakov/llm-scraper development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Improved file parsing for LLM’s. Contribute to Filimoa/open-parse development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    liteLLM▲120

    One library to standardize all LLM APIs

    2023 · litellm.ai · its alternatives →

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    Extract structured content from the semantic web

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Effortless LLM extraction from documents

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We've been building data pipelines that scrape websites and extract structured data for a while now. If you've done this, you know the drill: you write CSS selectors, the site changes its layout, everything breaks at 2am, and you spend your morning rewriting parsers. LLMs seemed like the obvious fix — just throw the HTML at GPT and ask for JSON. Except in practice, it's more painful than that: - Raw HTML is full of nav bars, footers, and tracking junk that eats your token budget. A typical product page is 80% noise. - LLMs return malformed JSON more often than you'd expect, especially with…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HackerNews, Lately, I have seen an explosion in posts offering paid APIs/services to get unstructured data into LLMs (i.e. langchain extract, ragflow, unstructured, unstract, just to name a few) and I have been largely disappointed by them, either because they fail to implement multimodal support, fail to give good context for "really tricky" PDFs / Word docs / Powerpoints, or are just plain difficult to use. In light of all these posts I figured I'd share my solution that has been working smoothly for me and my clients. I put it up on GitHub for free so you can check it…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Built a tool for transforming unstructured data into structured outputs using language models (with 100% adherence). If you're facing problems getting GPT to adhere to a schema (JSON, XML, etc.) or regex, need to bulk process some unstructured data, or generate synthetic data, check it out. We run our own tuned model (you can self-host if you want), so, we're able to have incredibly fine grained control over text generation. Repository: https://github.com/automorphic-ai/trex Playground: https://automorphic.ai/playground

    2023 · automorphic.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I built a tool for teaching LLMs how to extract structured data from documents by annotating, not prompt engineering. I’d love your feedback. How it works: - Upload a document (DOCX, PDF, image, etc.) - Select and tag parts of it (supports nesting, arrays, custom tag structures) - Upload another document → click "predict" → see editable annotations - Amend them and save as a new example - Call the API with a third document → get JSON back Use cases: - Identify "important clauses" in contracts - Extract "total value" from invoices - Anything subjective, like "healthy ingredients" on a…

    2025 · deeptagger.com · its alternatives →

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    Cloudglue▲203

    Turn videos into structured data, ready for LLMs

    2025 · cloudglue.dev · its alternatives →

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    I built this library because langchain was too bloated and I needed a simple abstraction to call multiple LLM APIs. litellm has two functions - completion(), embedding()

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Get your unstructured data AI-ready in minutes

    2024 · tonic.ai · its alternatives →

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    TagTeam▲109

    Natural Language Processing API for unstructured text.

    2022 · tagteam.ai · its alternatives →

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    I've developed a Python API service that uses GPT-4o for OCR on PDFs. It features parallel processing and batch handling for improved performance. Not only does it convert PDF to markdown, but it also describes the images within the PDF using captions like `[Image: This picture shows 4 people waving]`. In testing with NASA's Apollo 17 flight documents, it successfully converted complex, multi-oriented pages into well-structured Markdown. The project is open-source and available on GitHub. Feedback is welcome.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a CLI tool in Go that extracts structured data (JSON, CSV, Parquet) from messy PDFs and HTML pages. The core idea: LLMs are great at understanding structure but wasteful for bulk data extraction. So smelt uses a two-pass architecture: 1. A fast Go capture layer parses the document and detects table-like regions 2. Those regions (not the whole document) get sent to Claude for schema inference — column names, types, nesting 3. The Go layer then does deterministic extraction using the inferred schema This means the LLM is never in the hot path of actual data processing. It figures out…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Extract structured data from text, files and archives.

    Mar 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    When building workflows that rely on LLMs, we commonly use structured output for programmatic use cases like converting an invoice into rows or meeting transcripts into tickets or even complex PDFs into database entries. The model may return the schema you want, but with hallucinated values like `invoice_date` being off by 2 months or the transcript array ordered wrongly. The JSON is valid, but the values are not. Structured output today is a big part of using LLMs, especially when building deterministic workflows. Current structured output benchmarks (e.g., JSONSchemaBench) only validate…

    Apr 2026 · interfaze.ai · its alternatives →

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    Get Structured Data from Unstructured Content.

    2024 · jsonscout.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! One of the most common uses of LLMs is to go beyond what traditional RPA or IDP can do when it comes to structuring unstructured documents. However, there are a lot of challenges in getting this done right from extraction of text data from PDFs, scanned images or other formats, prompt engineering, evaluation and integration with existing systems. This very specific use case is where Unstract can help teams move really fast, leveraging LLMs. By doing the heavy-lifting in this fast-changing ecosystem it lets engineers concentrate on implementing core business workflow automations.…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Realtime web data for LLMs

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    I built Sculptor after repeatedly seeing founders try to hire data scientists for a task that ultimately boiled down to extracting structured data from unstructured text (customer records, social posts, websites, etc) using an LLM API. We ended up reinventing this pattern internally at least three times in the past year, so I published Sculptor as a streamlined, open-source solution: - Simple schema-based extraction, with parallelization and type validation. - Multi-step pipelines with filtering or transforms between steps. - Configure everything in YAML/JSON for easy reuse. It’s MIT…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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