chezmo | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What tools do you use to automate your business?
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chezmo | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Www.rlog.io query high volume of flat files using SQL or web API
I really like the idea and I think there might be a lot of demand for this kind of stuff. Did you already do consulting work for customers with this kind of problem? That would be a great way to kick-start the business.
chezmo | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: bndr – jsFiddle for Slack commands
love the idea! Curious how this will evolve once people start adding more commands.
chezmo | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data
Awesome feedback!
So far, it's the user who would need to decide which document goes to which parser. A routing engine is however on our list and probably be one of the next features to add.
Regarding the stats, I'm not sure yet as we just launched. OCR was however one of the first things early users asked for.
For the 'unpaper' function we are using http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/unpaper.1.ht...
I would love to discuss things more in detail with you. Could you contact me contact [at] docparser.com please?
chezmo | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data
For scanned images we use https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract. For text based PDFs we pull the text directly from the file and all languages are supported.
chezmo | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data
We do position based text extraction. We add however an 'unpaper' function which tries to correct misalignments and increases the quality of the scan.
chezmo | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data
That's right! The user defines a rectangular area and we then extract the raw text based on the position. For table extraction we use tabula.java under the hood.
chezmo | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data
Thanks for the heads up, I just fixed it! mailparser.io is my other product which I launched a couple of years ago. Customers kept asking for document parsing capabilities so I thought it would be a good idea to start Docparser. For the FAQ I copied some text and apparently forgot to properly proof read it :)
chezmo | 9 years ago | on: Fully automated delivery system without a single line of code
Hey Guys! I'm the founder of mailparser.io and I'm super happy to see this showcase of Michael on Medium. Please let me know if you have any questions about mailparser.io or how to pull data out of e-mails.
chezmo | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Talkus – Chat with your website users from Slack
I love the fact that you don't need to add another app to your startup stack.
chezmo | 11 years ago
Interesting to see that the DDP of Meteor can also be used to let servers talk to each other. Until now I thought it's used solely for client/server communication.
chezmo | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)
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chezmo | 11 years ago | on: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
chezmo | 12 years ago | on: Zapier Email Parser: Extract Text From Automated Emails
Congratulations Bryan for launching it!
We are doing the same at http://mailparser.io and I can confirm that there is a real need for a solution like that. A lot of our existing customers use mailparser.io in combination with Zapier. Those customers can now directly use the parser of Zapier. Which sucks for us but which is surely great for the customer and Zapier ... :-)
One caveat though, a lot of use-cases are not the static "contact form" email where nothing moves except the values. We get a lot of requests for parsing lists, tables etc. Curious how the chosen approach works on this kind of parsing jobs.
chezmo | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you drive web traffic to your successful side projects?
I can just agree on that. My side project http://mailparser.io has ridiculous low traffic compared to other projects i developed. Still it's doing much better than the other sites regarding the conversion and finally the MRR.
chezmo | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: mailparser.io - extract data from inbound emails
this could actually be interesting for event organizers. one could forward their [email protected] email address to mailparser.io and get a csv file back with all the attendee names in it.
chezmo | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images
i transfer all parameters via json to php and redo the rendering on the server with the GD library.
chezmo | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images
instagraph library (https://github.com/webarto/instagraph)
chezmo | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images
On the client mostly jQueryUI, qq-upload and some little jQuery plugins. On the server my usual PHP setup (Smarty, phpThumb) and the awesome instagraph library for the filters (https://github.com/webarto/instagraph)
chezmo | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images
Good point about the cancel button! Once i find more pictures i can put to the stock i'll definitively add a "next image" button.
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I thought I should mention that we also launched a sister-product called https://docparser.com two years. Docparser is basically like Mailparser, but for documents (PDFs or scanned documents).