So, I wanted to share something I've been building called Struxs.
The whole idea for this came from my old job as a consultant. I was building systems for all sorts of clients, and it felt like every other project involved scraping data from images—passports, receipts, driver's licenses, you name it. It was always a huge pain. I'd either be hunting for some super-specific OCR API for one document type, or I'd be stuck using generic OCR and then trying to duct-tape it together with a mountain of fragile regex. It was a maintenance nightmare and I was juggling a dozen different API subscriptions.
The final straw, funny enough, came from my wife. She's an accountant and was complaining about having to manually check invoice numbers from PDFs to see if they'd already been paid. She just needed one field, the invoice number. All the existing solutions were crazy expensive enterprise tools that did way too much.
It just clicked. Why isn't there a tool where I can just point at what I want from any document and get a simple API for it?
So I built Struxs.
The workflow is pretty straightforward: you upload a sample image or PDF. Then, in the editor, you don't draw boxes or anything complicated—you just click on the text you want and give it a key (like invoice_number or patient_name). You can define nested objects or lists for line items, whatever structure you need. The moment you hit save, it's a live, production-ready API endpoint.
And because I've spent years dealing with flaky third-party services, I knew this thing had to be fast and reliable. So I spent a ton of time on the backend building a custom orchestration layer to manage the GPU workloads. My whole goal was to build the kind of rock-solid API that I would have wanted to use for my own clients back in the day.
Anyway, I'm putting this out here to see if this is just a "me" problem, or if other devs have been banging their heads against the same wall. How do you all handle this kind of stuff right now?
I'd honestly love to hear any feedback you have, good or bad. The product is still early, and any thoughts would be super valuable. There's a free plan with 200 credits to play around with, no credit card needed. You can build a couple of templates and see if it's useful.
You can check it out here: https://struxs.com/
