Show HN: I built an AI in 3 days at 16 y/o that lets you chat with your PDFs (pdfchat.fr)

3 points by safwanbouceta ↗ HN
Hey, it's Safwan

I'm 16 and obsessed with AI and coding. Last year, I was struggling with my homework - especially when teachers gave us long PDF documents to analyze for history and literature classes.

The problem? I'd spend hours scrolling through 30-page PDFs trying to find specific quotes or information for my essays. My friends had the same issue - we were all wasting time instead of actually learning.

I tried Ctrl+F, highlighting, even printing everything out... but I realized what we really needed was to ask questions to our documents like we would to a teacher.

So during summer break, I taught myself more about AI and built the first version of PDF Chat.

Now I can finish my research in minutes instead of hours, and I'm helping students and professionals worldwide do the same. Pretty cool for a high schooler, right?

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What is the data retention period and does this share peoples PDF's with third parties? Does the AI retain data it learned about a corporation or individuals PII and corporate secrets from within a PDF?