SecureAI Tools
AI
llm chat interface
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
1 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Performance: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 0 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, well-timed open source tool
From 2 comments
Great job. This is a relatively crowded area, particularly RAG style chat systems. It might be nice for SecureAI to call out what makes their product different from other open…
vunderba on HNNice tool. However, these days, people are looking for something that is more feature-rich and can perform various tasks. Building an RAG system with a chat interface is common.…
sunnysogra on HN
Objections
Scanned PDFs and OCR not supported
From 1 comment
Great questions. > 1. Does chat-with-pdfs function work with scanned PDFs? Not yet. We don't do OCR or anything to extract text from images yet. But that would be an awesome…
d7y on HN
Large PDF collections slow to index
From 1 comment
Right now it supports selecting & uploading a _few_ PDFs on chat-creation. Those PDFs get indexed online -- i.e. while the user waits. So it doesn't scale well with the number of…
d7y on HN
Privacy claims unclear; demo uses ChatGPT
From 1 comment
The demo video is using ChatGPT.
hifreq on HN
Crowded space versus existing tools
From 1 comment
Great job. This is a relatively crowded area, particularly RAG style chat systems. It might be nice for SecureAI to call out what makes their product different from other open…
vunderba on HN
Requests
Support for OCR and scanned PDFs
From 2 comments
I am very new to this field, so forgive my ignorance when I ask super basic questions. 1. Does chat-with-pdfs function work with scanned PDFs? 2. In the video example for…
cheema33 on HNIf I've already run OCR on my PDFs and that's added now as an invisible layer, would it work then? I've had a workflow digitizing my incoming paper documents, running OCR, and…
smeej on HN
Offline or bulk document indexing
From 2 comments
I am very new to this field, so forgive my ignorance when I ask super basic questions. 1. Does chat-with-pdfs function work with scanned PDFs? 2. In the video example for…
cheema33 on HNRight now it supports selecting & uploading a _few_ PDFs on chat-creation. Those PDFs get indexed online -- i.e. while the user waits. So it doesn't scale well with the number of…
d7y on HN
Linux compatibility with Alpine and other distros
From 1 comment
I'm not able to use this locally on Alpine Linux because ollama needs glibc.
jart on HN
Questions
Can a directory of PDFs be queried?
From 1 comment
Can a directory of PDFs be queried or does it only support a single document?
teruakohatu on HN
How does it differ from Danswer and Khoj?
From 1 comment
Great job. This is a relatively crowded area, particularly RAG style chat systems. It might be nice for SecureAI to call out what makes their product different from other open…
vunderba on HN
Alternatives named
Danswer
From 1 comment
Great job. This is a relatively crowded area, particularly RAG style chat systems. It might be nice for SecureAI to call out what makes their product different from other open…
vunderba on HN
Khoj
From 1 comment
Great job. This is a relatively crowded area, particularly RAG style chat systems. It might be nice for SecureAI to call out what makes their product different from other open…
vunderba on HN
ChatPDF
From 2 comments
Hey everyone, We have been building SecureAI Tools -- an open-source application layer for ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools. It works with locally running LLMs as well as with…
d7y on HNNice tool. However, these days, people are looking for something that is more feature-rich and can perform various tasks. Building an RAG system with a chat interface is common.…
sunnysogra on HN