jaklens

I'm a freelancer. Every month I'd spend 20–30 minutes manually typing vendor names, amounts, and dates from PDF invoices into a spreadsheet. I looked at the obvious options:

QuickBooks / FreshBooks — $30–200/month, everything lives on their servers, overkill for a solo freelancer.

Wave — free but cloud-only. My invoice data sitting on someone else's server, subject to their privacy policy, always one "we're shutting down" email away from being gone.

Frappe Books — solid open-source option but no AI. Still manual data entry.

What I actually wanted was simple: drop a PDF, have it read automatically, ask it questions later. All on my own machine. No subscription. No account. No data leaving my PC.

So I built it with Qwen2.5 1.5B running locally via llama.cpp. The AI runs entirely on your CPU — no API calls, no cloud, no privacy trade-offs. It reads the invoice, extracts the data, stores it in a local SQLite database, and you can chat with it later ("what did I spend on soft