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Local document conversion API

Create a self-hostable service that converts documents to clean Markdown while preserving structure, competing with cloud-based alternatives.

Why now

Growing privacy concerns make locally-run document processing appealing.

Who for
Privacy-conscious teams
Business model
Self-hosted license
Effort
A few weeks

Many teams need to extract text from PDFs and scans but can't send sensitive documents to cloud services. Existing local tools produce messy output.

Package state-of-the-art OCR and layout analysis into a simple Docker container with a REST API. Focus on quality for technical documentation and legal texts.

Initial version could use existing open-source libraries wrapped in a clean interface. Later add fine-tuned models for specific verticals.

Primary challenge is competing with free cloud tools from big tech companies.

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