PageSift
Web content engine for AI agents: pages & PDFs → Markdown
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PageSift turns URLs, PDFs and Office files into clean Markdown and structured data for AI agents. One self-hosted Rust binary: no per-page pricing, no external services. It scrapes, crawls, maps, batches and monitors sites, parses PDFs (including scanned, with built-in OCR), Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB and CSV, and offers CLI, Firecrawl-compatible API, Jina-compatible endpoints, MCP server and Python/Node SDKs. Fast (PDF 2.4 ms/page; 3,500–4,400 pages/s in ~300 MB) and open source (AGPL-3.0).
PH · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: web scraping tools and apis · 172 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▲ +9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial The API, crawling, and Markdown conversion layers are buildable with AI help, but production-grade PDF parsing, scanned-document OCR, and Office format fidelity are hard to get right.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a fast systems language (the product uses Rust) plus a mature document-parsing stack such as PDFium/poppler, Tesseract or a commercial OCR engine, and format-specific parsers for DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX. The hard parts are layout-faithful extraction, handling messy real-world PDFs and scans at volume, and a robust crawler with politeness, JavaScript rendering, and job scheduling. This takes systems and document-processing engineering experience and extensive testing against a large corpus of real files.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 316 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #145 of 317 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 347 days after the earliest competitor.
- pagesift · github · 2026-10-20 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Pdf2md · hn · 2026-05-18 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- RelayPDF · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- CheckMarkdown · ph · 2026-11-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- 9artifacts · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Unrendered · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Danubia · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- legivel · ph · 2026-10-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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