Astra Annotator
Turn PDFs into labeled text, figures and equations with AI
Details
- External ID
- 1250406
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- PDF Annotator
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub, OpenAI Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
Description
Tell AI what to find in your documents, then watch editable annotations appear across up to three pages at once. Separate text, figures, tables and equations; add your own labels and notes; export the parts you need. Works with PDFs, Office files and images. Try the paper demo without a key, bring your own API key in the browser, or run locally with Codex App Server. Desktop-first. English, Japanese and Chinese UI. AI usage is billed by your provider.
Enrichment
- Theme
- typography and unicode text tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- pdf document extraction and labeling tool for ai datasets
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building an annotation canvas UI is straightforward, but robustly segmenting complex PDFs into discrete text, tables, figures, and LaTeX equations requires specialized vision-document parsing models.
What it would actually take: The frontend can use PDF.js and canvas manipulation libraries. However, the core segmentation engine requires advanced multimodal document layout analysis models (like LayoutLMv3, Marker, or Nougat) running on GPU inference infrastructure to accurately extract bounding boxes for tables and math equations without degradation across varying multi-column document formats. A solo builder can prototype with Claude Vision or GPT-4o, but a production tool demands dedicated CV/OCR pipelines and low-latency document-tiling workers.
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Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.
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