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evdubs a day ago

You don't need to use an online service to do this; you get to avoid spending money on tokens doing it offline.

Gemma 4 works perfectly well offline on limited hardware (I have an 8GB video card) and can handle extracting text from image-based PDFs just fine.

Take a PDF -> run it through MarkItDown [1], using the OCR plugin if you need (point it to Gemma 4) -> now you can ask Gemma 4 questions about the (markdown) document.

I am sure Gemma 4 could even create a GUI to make this process very simple for a non technical user.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown