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2mo ago

How we built a local-first AI tool to extract emails, phones, and links from messy text instantly 🔒

Hey everyone!

While working with massive amounts of unstructured text and data recently, I kept running into a frustrating bottleneck: trying to manually clean, filter, and pull out useful contact info (emails, phone numbers, links, hashtags) from messy blocks of text is a massive waste of time. And relying on heavy, cloud-based scrapers often feels like an overkill or a privacy risk.

So, we asked ourselves: What if we built a clean, lightning-fast utility to handle this locally?

We spent the last few weeks crafting Nexus Sniper an AI-powered OCR and text-parsing tool designed to sift through random text and instantly extract clean emails, phone numbers, links, and hashtags locally on your machine, with zero cloud-upload risks.

We are officially launching on Product Hunt in a few days, but before that, I d love to hear from this amazing community:

  • How do you usually clean and extract structured data from messy text or images?

  • What is the most annoying data-extraction bottleneck in your daily workflow?

Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any features you wish existing tools had!

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2mo ago

Nexus Sniper - AI-powered OCR to extract emails & contacts locally.

Nexus Sniper is a professional B2B tool designed to instantly extract emails, phone numbers, and links from any text, image, or document using advanced OCR. Whether scanning a business card or analyzing documents, it processes everything locally on your device for 100% privacy. No cloud storage, no hidden tracking—just fast, secure, and offline-capable data extraction for marketers and entrepreneurs.