Sygal
Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally
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HN · launched Oct 15, 2026 · 46 upvotes (top 21%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
Similar launches
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Yes The product wraps an existing open-source conversion library (MarkItDown is named) in a desktop app with a preview, editor, and local library, and the OCR step calls external APIs with the user's own keys. A solo builder can assemble this with AI help.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1137 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #183 of 1138 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 351 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pdf2md · hn · 2026-05-18 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- MDV · hn · 2026-04-18 · 152 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Sarala · hn · 2026-09-29 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Malgel · github · 2026-09-28 · 85 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- open-typora · github · 2026-10-15 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- gopd · github · 2026-09-15 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Write.md · hn · 2026-08-11 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- hype · github · 2026-09-18 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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More details
- External ID
- 50106054
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- Sygal
- Website domain
- sygal.app
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.79
- All tags
- n/a
- AI summary
- local document converter for markdown
- Manually corrected
- No