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AI · January 30, 2024

Open-source alternative to pdf.ai, ask your pdf and other AI for docs

Simple AI assistant for documents made open source Can be used for your docs or also for shared documents. It is currently a part of Papermark, open source Docsend alternative for sharing docs quickly and getting analytics on each page. Thinking on investing more time in it, and building more advanced work with many docs. Any contributors are welcome here https://github.com/mfts/papermark

Open-source alternative to pdf.ai, ask your pdf and other AI for docs launched on January 30, 2024 with 6 votes, #2,120 of 4,437 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

Discover Papermark AI, an advanced AI document assistant, for chatting with data rooms and documents.

Made our fundraising more effective. I love sharing my pitch deck with Papermark, and see if investors view it. I am an active Papermark user. Very happy that we made a transition to their data rooms. I recommend it to every founder and fund I know Papermark team listens to their users and build what they need. Thanks for solving a big painfrom papermark.io

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