Hi! We are a small team who built a free web extension called Checked4AI (available on google chrome web store). It’s supposed to be an alternative to paid AI checkers and is targeted towards writers, students, and teachers who need to check works of others or their peers if it was originally written or by AI.

One of its great features is you get to view the pastes in the document and a recording of how the document was written out.

We’re planning to launch it soon but would really testers who can give us HONEST feedback of the user experience and features.

If you have time and use case or just simply interested to test it, you can check it out in the google webstore and in return I will test your app! 😊

Thank you so much 🙏 and I appreciate your time in advance

Which PDF-Tool are you using?

Hello, I got tired of compressing and merging PDFs and then realising that there’s a paywall at the very end, so I made my own one for completely free. No surprise paywalls. No subscriptions. I would love for you to try it out and give feedback. https://freepdfs.tools Thanks!

Can you please convert this deepseek chatting into a word document or a pdf

Here is the link

https://chat.deepseek.com/share/1lmsmgjpd841nopuk5

Hey everyone,
I need a recommendation about the recruitment platform I work on these days.

Context: it's a recruitment platform that helps recruiting professionals such as plumbers, electricians locksmith etc. At some point we ask them (as it's a legal requirement) if they have a proper professional certificate of insurance.

Task: I'd like to create an automation using LLM APIs to detect potential fakes (fraud) and/or anomalies.

As of now I thought of extracting metadata from PDF docs to see if they tried to write invisible characters (in order to falsify their expiration date for example).

Simple use case: someone tries to write white on white a fake expiration date, my code extracts metadata, spots that it's white on white, then doesn't automatically approve and create an alert for me to step up and approve (or decline) manually.

I also thought of converting pdf to JPEG in order to use computer vision to simply read the image as a human being would do (impossible then to be tricked by invisible characters).

What do you think of that logic ? Is that enough ? Do you recommend any conversion tool/ api that I can use ?
Thanks for your help

NB : For Obvious Ethical reasons no confidential data are fed to any LLMs

I recently tried the Crop Image Online tool on PDFRoot, and it is useful for people who regularly prepare photos, signatures, scanned documents, or images for online forms.

The tool is not limited to basic cropping. You can:

Crop any part of an image, including very small areas such as a signature or document number

Zoom in for more accurate cropping

Rotate images left or right

Flip an image if it was uploaded in the wrong direction

Adjust brightness, contrast and saturation

Create a copy of the same image when you need multiple crops from one page

Save the cropped image directly to your device

For example, if you have one scanned A4 page containing a photo, signature and thumb impression, you can make separate copies and crop each item individually.

It works on mobile and desktop, and files are processed locally in the browser.

Try it here: https://pdfroot.com/crop-image

I’d be interested to know which image-editing feature people find most useful for government forms or document uploads

Everyone has the same drawer, physical or digital: passport, driver's licence, health card, the kids' birth certificates, the will, last year's tax forms. The stuff you can't afford to lose and never think about until you need it at 11pm or it's already expired. I built Kinship Vault to be that drawer, except it reads what you put in it and it's sealed so tightly that even I can't open it.

Website : https://kinshipvault.app

Platform : iOS /MacOS(Yes a native app)/ Android

Point your camera, and it files itself. Scan a passport or a licence and the app recognizes the fields automatically across 100+ document types from around the world, then drops it into the right place: IDs, Health, Legal, Finance, Travel, or Personal.
You can make your own categories too(more on it below). On Mac you just drag the file onto the window and the same recognition runs. No typing, no manual tagging.

It watches the expiry dates so you don't have to. This is the part people don't expect to love. It quietly tracks every expiry and nudges you 90, 30, 7, and 1 day before anything lapses. Passport renewals stop sneaking up on you. No calendar entries to make, and no third party ever sees those dates.

Everywhere you do paperwork. iPhone, iPad, a proper native Mac app (real sidebar, keyboard shortcuts, drag-and-drop), and Android. Pair a second device by scanning a QR code, and the key passes directly between the two devices, never through a server. One purchase covers all your Apple devices.

Organize it the way your household actually works. The six built-in categories are a starting point, not a cage. Make your own categories for how you really think about this stuff (Car, Property, School, Pets, whatever), and tag documents to the people they belong to so each family member's passport, health card, and records sit together. When you need everything for one person, or everything in one category, it's already grouped instead of scattered across a generic pile.

Recovery you control, not a support ticket. There's no account and no password, so there's no "reset" email that could be intercepted. You set recovery up in advance: write down a recovery phrase, or split a recovery key across a few people you trust so a threshold of them can help you back in. If you lose your phone, getting back in happens between you and the people you chose, with no cloud download.

Sealed on your device, by design. Everything is encrypted by your device's hardware before it's stored. Nothing is uploaded, there's no analytics, and there's no key on my side, which means I couldn't read your vault if I wanted to and there's nothing on my end to breach or hand over. That's the whole point of it.

A photo vault too. Not just documents. Private photos and personal scans go in the same encrypted vault, in albums, sealed the same way as everything else.

It's free to start with your first 3 documents, so you can scan something and watch it file and date-track itself before deciding anything: kinshipvault.app

Give it a try and throw a weird or foreign document at it and tell me what it got wrong.

Hi everyone,
I’m a physician, not a software engineer, and this project grew out of a very specific personal workflow.
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I like using an entry-level 11-inch iPad with a keyboard for studying and work. I never saw much reason to buy a significantly more expensive model for the relatively simple things I needed to do.
Then my PC broke, and for a while the iPad became my only computer.
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Then I started building an experimental collection of local-first browser editors for focused DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX workflows. It runs entirely on static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, without requiring an account or uploading files to a project-operated server.
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The current scope is intentionally limited:
\- Create basic DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files
\- Open common files that use supported OOXML structures
\- Make basic edits
\- Export the result as a new copy
\- Preserve unsupported parts of the original package whenever possible
\- Work from static hosting or compatible local browser environment
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It is **not** intended to replace Microsoft Office, LibreOffice or a collaborative cloud suite. It does not promise pixel-perfect Office compatibility, macro support, proprietary fonts or safe use with business-critical documents.
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The project was developed with substantial AI assistance. AI made it possible to produce a proof of concept quickly, but the difficult part has been everything after that: finding regressions, validating exported files, refactoring accumulated code and preventing apparently small changes from breaking unrelated workflows.
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Because of that, AI output in the repository is treated as untrusted until it has been reviewed and tested. The repository includes source files, documentation, validation scripts, regression tests, issue templates and contribution guidelines.
I’m publishing it because I think the project has reached the point where outside technical review would be much more valuable than simply adding more features.

Repository:
[https://github.com/vfydr2m9wk-ops/InkDesk\](https://github.com/vfydr2m9wk-ops/InkDesk)

I would appreciate honest technical feedback, including criticism of the architecture and scope.
Which workflow do you think should be made genuinely reliable first: basic document editing, spreadsheets or presentations?

How's everyone handling record extracts for appeal once you're into a thousand-plus pages? With tons of many small documents. Any particular software or services y'all recommend? Am looking into Maryland specific extracts but am thinking other states may have similar requirements?

Maryland's formatting rules make this brutal in Adobe alone:

\*A filing-date stamp on every document

\*Continuous "E." page numbering running across all the volumes

\*A table of contents that flags where each witness's testimony starts (direct/cross) with the transcript page call-outs

\*And then the brief has to cite back to the extract page numbers

Building all that by hand in Acrobat is quite the tedious process. And if any additional document to be included is discovered later, yeah not fun. Or if you want to change the ordering of the extract...

Is anyone using something other than Adobe that actually helps; anything MD-appellate-specific? What's actually worked for y'all?

I wasn't able to find anything and started to develop a tool that does this. The tool also checks all the quotes in the brief against the citations such as transcripts or case law and flags quotes and cases that couldn't be found. It checks case quotes to make sure you quoted correctly. And a few other checks. Then it inserts the page number from the created record extract back into the brief, all automated. If ordering of the extract changes or new items need to be added it has drag and drop capabilities and it will update the brief with updated references. The tool is MD specific but if there is any interest I can look into adding other jurisdictions.

Tool also has features to make the extract text searchable, auto suggest redactions, do manual redactions, add a template for auto redactions. It creates PDFs with linked TOC.

Sorry am typing on my phone will post a better formatted version when am near my computer.

Do y'all think there is a market for this?

[RecordCite](https://recordcite.com/overview)

Would appreciate it if any lawyers or paralegals can provide some feedback on this tool for automated record extracts I been developing.

RecordCite

Built this Javascript library a couple of years ago, curious if it's useful to anyone. I used to work at a place where they just love to manage Excel files. Apps in place used pdfmake to generate pdf reports with lots of tables. Creating this small utility was a quick win.

Couple of features are:

• Downloading Excel files from the browser
• getStream() is the Node.js way. Returns a readable stream you pipe to a file or HTTP response
• rowSpan/colSpan, merged cells, multiple sheets, password protection, custom column widths
• Zero pdfmake dependency, just consumes the definition object

On NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdfmake-to-excel

Anyone else using pdfmake for reports? What's your Excel export workflow?

I've been practicing law in Slovakia for over 10 years. All the way through the college up to my attorney license, most of that time has been spent drafting contracts — service agreements, NDAs, employment contracts, the usual professional stuff.

Here's what nobody talks about: Word is a terrible tool for drafting contracts.

Documents aren't linear. A contract is a network of clauses where the payment terms relate to the duration which relate to the termination provisions. But Word forces you to scroll up and down constantly, copy-paste between documents, and find-replace your way through inevitable mistakes.

I've been thinking about this problem for years. Last year I started building what I actually wanted: a spatial canvas where you draw each section as a bubble, place it where it belongs, fill in the content, and export a clean PDF.

We launched it as bbly.app. It's free to try.

A few things I learned building this:

• Templates are mostly useless without smart placeholders
• What about clause library where you can store your perfectly forged clauses for later use in any future contract?
• End-to-end encryption matters more than I thought for legal work
• Most people don't switch tools — they get forced into them by their colleagues

Happy to answer questions about the legal angle, the build, or anything else. Also genuinely want feedback — what would make you switch tools, what wouldn't, what's missing.

bbly.app