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Revised on September 20, 2026
- Check a company identification numberCheck that a SIREN or a SIRET typed into a form is well-formed, before storing it.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Check a file is really the format it claimsKnow what an uploaded file really holds, before accepting it, storing it or serving it back.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Check a password against a policyDecide whether a password chosen at sign-up can be accepted, without letting it leave your infrastructure.No AI neededFreeFastYour data goes to a third party
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Check bank details before a transferCheck that an IBAN, typed or pasted, is well-formed, before the transfer goes out.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Collect the links of a pageList the addresses quoted in a web page, resolved to absolute ones.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Convert a PDF to plain textGet the text of a PDF document, page by page, in the order it reads.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Estimate the cost of a model callKnow, before calling, what a job will cost in tokens and so on the bill, to compare it with what it replaces.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Extract amounts and currencies from a textFind the sums quoted in a message or a document, with their currency, however they are written.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Extract the key terms of a documentSurface the terms that characterise a document, so it can be indexed, labelled or previewed.No generative AI neededFreeFastYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Extract the main content from a web pageGet an article’s text without the menu, the cookie banner, the related items and the footer.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Extract the tables from a PDFGet the rows and columns of a table printed inside a PDF — an invoice, a statement, a delivery note.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Find the people and organisations named in an articleList the proper names mentioned in a text and tell what kind of entity each one is.AI, but a small model on your own machinesnégligeableFastYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Get the product data out of a shop pageGet the name, reference, brand, price and availability of an item from the page that shows it.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Isolate the newest reply in an email threadSeparate the message that just arrived from the history copied under it.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Know whether a PDF needs OCRDecide, across a pile of PDFs, which pages to send to character recognition and which ones already read.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Read a file’s metadataGet the date, the author and whatever else a document carries, before publishing it or filing it away.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Repair text with broken encodingStraighten out values from an import where “CrÃ©dit Agricole” has replaced “Crédit Agricole”.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Split log lines into fieldsPull the address, the date, the status code and the rest out of a log line, to count them or store them.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Spot a tracking number in an emailFind the parcel reference in a shipping confirmation and tell which carrier it belongs to.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Sum or average a column of dataAdd up, count or average a column of a file, without one unreadable row quietly skewing the total.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Turn an HTML table into dataGet the rows and the columns of a table published in a web page, merged cells included.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Validate a phone number and its country codeTell whether a number someone typed exists in a country’s numbering plan, and what kind of line it is.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Validate an API payload against its contractCheck that an incoming request matches what the API’s OpenAPI document declares for that endpoint.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Validate an email address without sending a messageCheck that an address typed into a form has the shape of an address, before storing it.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 20, 2026
- Validate an imported file against a schemaCheck that a JSON file received from a partner follows the agreed contract, and say exactly what is wrong with it.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 18, 2026
- Detect the language of a textWork out which language a message is written in before processing it or passing it to the right person.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 18, 2026
- Extract the fields of an invoicePull the number, the date and the amount due out of an invoice, whatever the supplier’s layout.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 18, 2026
- Forecast next week’s salesKnow how much I will sell next week, from my own sales history.No generative AI needednégligeableInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 18, 2026
- Moderate user commentsKeep an abusive comment from being published, or put it in front of a moderator before it is.AI, but a small model on your own machinesInexpensiveFastYour data stays with you
Revised on September 18, 2026
- Read the text of a scanned pageGet the text out of a document that arrived as a PDF or an image, to index it, file it or read it back.AI, but a small model on your own machinesmodéréAbout a secondYour data stays with you
Revised on September 18, 2026
- Route a support ticket to the right teamSend each incoming support ticket to the team that can answer it.No generative AI needednégligeableInstantYour data stays with you
Revised on September 18, 2026
- Search in your own documentsFind the right page in an internal corpus — a handbook, a knowledge base, documentation — from what a reader types into a search box.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 18, 2026
- Show similar articlesOffer three or four other articles from the site, under the one being read, that cover the same subject.No generative AI needednégligeableInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 18, 2026
- Spot spam in a contact formKeep automated and promotional submissions out of a public form without blocking genuine enquiries.No generative AI needednégligeableInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 18, 2026
- Summarise a long documentGet, in a few sentences, what a document too long to read says.Yes, a general-purpose model earns its placeélevéOver a secondYour data goes to a third party
Revised on September 18, 2026
- Translate interface stringsMake an application exist in another language, keeping the placeholders and the room available on screen.AI, but a small model on your own machinesInexpensiveFastYour data stays with you
Revised on September 18, 2026
- Validate a form server-sideCheck that the data received from a form is complete and coherent before storing it.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 18, 2026
- Write product descriptionsWrite the sales text for every item in a catalogue, starting from its characteristics.Yes, a general-purpose model earns its placeélevéAbout a secondYour data goes to a third party
Revised on September 17, 2026
- Autocomplete a search barOffer suggestions from the first characters typed into a search bar.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 17, 2026
- Extract dates from free textFind the dates mentioned in a message or a document, whatever their format.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 17, 2026
- Find duplicate records in a fileFind the records that stand for the same person or company in a file entered by several people.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 17, 2026
- Mask contact details in a chat messagePrevent a phone number, an email address or an IBAN from appearing in a sent message. Not a name and not a postal address: those are personal data too, and no level on this page touches them.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 17, 2026
- Match misspelled company namesRecognise that the same company appears under several spellings across two files of different origins.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 17, 2026
- Parse an address into fieldsSplit an address typed as a single line into number, street, complement, postcode and town.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 17, 2026
- Produce test data setsFill a database or a mock-up with believable data, without ever pouring real customer records into it.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 17, 2026
- Rank products by relevanceOrder the products on a catalogue page so the most relevant ones come first.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 17, 2026
- Spot an anomaly in a metricGet paged when a production metric leaves its usual behaviour, and not the rest of the time.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 17, 2026
- Tag articles by topicAttach to every article the topics it covers, taken from the newsroom’s own list.No generative AI needednégligeableInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 17, 2026
- Turn a messy CSV into usable dataLoad a CSV file received from outside, without knowing its encoding, its delimiter or the type of its columns.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves
Revised on September 15, 2026
- Produce placeholder imagesShow a stand-in image wherever the real one is still missing, in a mock-up or an unfinished catalogue.No AI neededFreeInstantYour data never leaves