{"id":50441321,"title":"Show HN: Sugo – Turn PDFs and Screenshots into Compact Markdown for LLMs","points":1,"user":"Muralnick","time":1794322746,"time_ago":"3 hours ago","type":"link","content":"

hi everyone,\ni'd like to show my project "Sugo".\nthis project answers a real problem i had:" how can i save tokens if i put a lot of screenshot or PDF's to give to any AI?"

Until recently i was learning to manage RAG system and to run an Ai locally, i got decent result, also with dedicated frameworks.\nthen i realised that the main reason for my bad results was how i managed the files for the RAG.

actualy i work in helpdesk, I'm young and i don't have much experience ;), i immagine you also give Ai's projects, docs and screenshots so a lot of tokens get used.\ni wondered how the AI converts PDF's and images and wow, it uses a lot, the worst part: the more powerful is the model, the more tokens it use.\ni'had enough, so i designed Sugo, it use OCR and other tools to convert images, PDFs, documents and presentation into Markdown files, so the Ai understands the content faster.

Right now, in github, there is the 0.1.4 version and includes the lite level (i'm planning a normal level and, for the most demanding, a quality level).\nif you take a look at the README, it would make me very happy, i had fun designing it.

along the way i came up with the most brilliant name ever. Since i'm italian, the word fit perfectly.\n"feed your LLM with the sauce, not the water", genius.

For anyone who doesn't know fine italian food the sugo (sauce) is the essential part of a dish, that's where the flavour is, it's what tells you if the plate of pasta is great or a junk, a watery sauce is not great, i want the essence.

Apply this cooking philosophy to IT and you get Sugo.

the best part is that it runs mostly locally, even on a computer with 16 years old hardware (please don't ask, i don't know why i have a computer like that either even though i have one a thousand times better).

One rule i set myself is transparency about my test data, i won't say silly thing like "my product is the best" or "i built it without Ai" i have no reason to hide it.\ni also won't hide that my account is new (before, i didn't even know hacker news, now i know it's a great place to learn and stay informed).\nTo keep it short, if you look at or try Sugo, feel free to tell me here or on github (i'll try to reply as soon as i can),all the docs, future plans, workflows and info are there.

If something is missing, just ask and thank you for reading all this stuff.

P.S my english is very bad, sorry for any mistakes.","url":"https://github.com/Muralnick/sugo","domain":"github.com","comments":[],"comments_count":0}