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pdf.js-hypothes.is

PDF.js + Hypothesis viewer / annotator

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
410GitHub stars
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What it is

PDF.js + Hypothesis viewer / annotator

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-10-27 19:24:46 UTC to 2025-08-17 23:21:46 UTC.

012020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Shell: GNU parallel, pdftotext Python: PyPdf2, PdfMiner.six, Grobid, PyMuPdf; pytesseract (C++) paperetl is built on grobid: https://github.com/neuml/paperetl annotateai: https://github.com/neuml/annotateai : > annotateai automatically annotates papers using Large Language Models (LLMs). While LLMs can summarize papers, search papers and build generative text about papers, this project focuses on providing human readers with context as they read. pdf.js-hypothes.is: https://github.com/hypothesis/pdf.js-hypothes.is: > This is a copy of Mozilla's PDF.js viewer with Hypothesis annotation tools added Hypothesis is built on the W3C Web Annotations spec. dokieli implements W3C Web Annotations and many other Linked Data Specs: https://github.com/dokieli/dokieli : > Implements versioning and has the notion of immutable resources. > Embedding da
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ta blocks, e.g., Turtle, N-Triples, JSON-LD, TriG (Nanopublications). A dokieli document interface to LLMs would be basically the anti-PDF. Rust crates: rayon handles parallel processing, pdf-rs, tesseract (C++) pdf-rs examples/src/bin/extract_page.rs: https://github.com/pdf-rs/pdf/blob/master/examples/src/bin/e...
In Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs

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