The idea

“Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps https://www.extend.ai/ui Founder's Show HN post: We're open-sourcing 14 components & examples today for PDF, DOCX, and XLSX viewers, plus bounding box citations, file upload, e-signature, and more. It's MIT licensed and fully customizable. Demo video here: https://share.extend.ai/kRmSGKRF When we started, we tried every file viewer and document component library we could find. Unfortunately, none of them had all the functionality (and polish) that we wanted, so we ended up building our own for https://extend.ai/. It was only ever meant to be internal, but enough customers kept asking for it that we decided to open source it. It's useful for building document processing agents, real-time user facing document intake flows, or all kinds of internal tooling. We naively thought this would be a solved problem. Turns out, making PDF/XLSX/DOCX viewers that work at scale is not trivial...we use and maintain it for Extend ourselves, so we've fixed a lot of edge cases that came up while running millions of pages / day through our own system. Our hope is that with our resources + community support, it'll keep getting better over time. Landing page content (Open source UI kit for modern document apps - Extend UI): Open source UI kit for modern document apps - Extend UI # Open source UI kit for modern document apps React components for PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and CSV viewers, with bounding box citations, file upload, e-signing, and more. Ready to drop into user-facing flows, agents, or internal tools.”