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I gave my dataset CLI Gemma 4 eyes at a Hacktoberfest Hack Day: it read a scanned page on my laptop, no cloud
I spent today at Hacktoberfest Hack Day Hyderabad x Kramer's Community (an MLH Hack Day) working on Saara , my open-source, local-first CLI for building ML training datasets.
The moment that made the day: I took a "scanned" PDF page with zero extractable text , ran one command, and Gemma 4 running locally in Ollama on my laptop read it back line for line, with nothing sent to the cloud.
saara ingest pdf scan.pdf --provider ollama --model gemma4:latest --out ocr.jsonl
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