Hacker News: mrkn1

Show HN: Free summary, fact check, ELI5 of any text on CPU

mrkn1 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:44:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kouhxp/fftext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469778

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: fftext - quick summary, fact check, ELI5 on CPU

mrkn1 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:12:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kouhxp/fftext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459506

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Fact check, summarize, explain any article or webpage on local CPU

mrkn1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:54:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kouhxp/fftext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433619

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrkn1 in "Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages"

mrkn1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:48:04 +0000

No rigorous eval, and I love Tesseract. Here's the example that motivated me to build textsnap (which is in the github's README), parsed with Tesseract:

https://imgur.com/a/i2eQra8

New comment by mrkn1 in "Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages"

mrkn1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:42:15 +0000

No reason other than their Q4 model working reasonably well and fast on my CPU laptop. Should work with any ONNX VLM model

New comment by mrkn1 in "Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages"

mrkn1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:41:06 +0000

109 languages, including other alphabets.

New comment by mrkn1 in "Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages"

mrkn1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:20:50 +0000

Just ran

  textsnap "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LBNDfxjEYlA/maxresdefault.jpg"

and got this

  $('.count').each(function () {
  $('this').prop('Counter', 0).animate({
    Counter: $('this').text()
  }, {
      duration: 4000,
      easing: 'swing',
      step: 'function (now) {
          $('this").text(Math.ceil(now));
      }
    }); 
  });

New comment by mrkn1 in "Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages"

mrkn1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:37:57 +0000

thank you!

New comment by mrkn1 in "Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages"

mrkn1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:28:52 +0000

thank you! what is it about?

Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages

mrkn1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:16:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kouhxp/textsnap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410841

Points: 19

# Comments: 17

Show HN: CPU-only fact-check, summarize, explain, translate any text

mrkn1 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:42:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kouhxp/fftext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392614

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrkn1 in "Show HN: CPU-only fast OCR for screenshots, images, PDFs, webpages"

mrkn1 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:21:33 +0000

I have not. My experience has been a few seconds for an 1024x1024 with medium density of text, FWIW. Feel free to try it on a few test images, model is pretty small and fast, but yeah no formal evals on CPU.