Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling
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It fills fields, answers questions, focuses on a specific field, adds fields, deletes pages, and so on.It's built on top of SimplePDF that I started 7 years ago, pioneering privacy-respecting client-side pdf editing, now used monthly by 200k+ people.As for the privacy model: the PDF itself never leaves the browser.
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By default that's our demo proxy (DeepSeek V4 Flash, rate-capped), but you can BYOK and point it at any cloud provider, or go fully local (I've been testing with LM Studio).Unlike the existing "Chat with PDF" tools that only retrieve the text/OCR layer, Copilot can act on the PDF: filling fields, adding fields (detected client-side using CommonForms by Joe Barrow [1], jbarrow on HN with some post-processing heuristics I added on top), focusing on...
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