Peter Bengtsson: Video to screenshots app. “I made a web app that helps you extract screenshots from a video file. You technically don’t ‘upload’ it but you select a video file from your computer into the web app, and the screenshots are generated more or less instantly.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/01/peter-bengtsson-video-to-screenshots-app/

Calishat Snaps pointed me to this tool which converts sprite sheets to GIFs. It by itself is not quite enough to include in ResearchBuzz, but check the other cool free tools created by the same person. There’s a link toward the bottom of the page.

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/06/convert-sprite-sheets-to-gifs-and-other-cool-tools/

TechCrunch: Mistral adds a new API that turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file. “On Thursday French large language model (LLM) developer Mistral launched a new API for developers who handle complex PDF documents. Mistral OCR is an optical character recognition (OCR) API that can turn any PDF into a text file to make it easier for AI models to ingest.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/techcrunch-mistral-adds-a-new-api-that-turns-any-pdf-document-into-an-ai-ready-markdown-file/

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