Ask HN / Review my startup: DocuHarvest
DocuHarvest extracts data from documents (PDFs only for now) in a way that is accessible to nontechnical users and economical for small workflows or one-off jobs. https://docuharvest.com The original launch announcement is on my blog here, which provides more background: "Getting valuable data out of documents should not require an I.T. staff, outside consultants, building or buying software, or an up-front investment of hundreds or thousands of dollars, regardless of how many documents and how much data is involved." http://muckandbrass.com/web/x/CwBi To answer probably the three most common questions: 1. Yes, we have a HTTP API coming, probably along with client libraries for some subset of {Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, C#/.NET, ...}. 2. More job types are incoming. As noted in the announcement and on the site's front page, imaging-related jobs are up next. Lots more in the works after tha
Why it failed
DocuHarvest extracts data from documents (PDFs only for now) in a way that is accessible to nontechnical users and economical for small workflows or one-off jobs. https://docuharvest.com The original launch announcement is on my blog here, which provides more background: "Getting
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- cemerick
- Ended
- 2010
- Source
- hackernews