Sugo

Documents, reduced. Feed your LLM the sauce, not the water.

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Sugo turns PDFs, Office files, screenshots and images into clean, compact Markdown for RAG systems, AI agents and LLM chats. It removes what only costs tokens (repeated headers and footers, page numbers, hidden text, tracking parameters, app chrome around a screenshot) and keeps the content, the tables and the structure. Everything runs on your computer: no cloud API, no telemetry, nothing sent anywhere.

In Italian, il sugo del discorso means "the gist", and a sugo is a sauce you reduce until only the concentrated flavour remains. That is what Sugo does to your documents.

What it does

A small generated three-page PDF, as a plain text extractor gives it to your model (pages 1 and 3 look the same):

ACME S.p.A. - Annual Report 2025                Confidential
3.2 Revenue
Revenue grew by 12% in the second half, driven by the export market.
Details: https://acme.example/report?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
Page 14 of 120

What sugo report.pdf prints:

ACME S.p.A. - Annual Report 2025

# 3.1 Costs

Costs fell by 3% thanks to the new suppliers.
Details: https://acme.example/report

# 3.2 Revenue

Revenue grew by 12% in the second half, driven by the export market.
Details: https://acme.example/report

# 3.3 Outlook

The board expects stable growth next year.
Details: https://acme.example/report

The header is kept once instead of on every page; the page numbers, the repeated "Confidential" and the tracking parameters are gone; the text is the same. sugo stats measures the difference: 180 → 97 tokens, 46% saved on this small generated example; real documents with less page furniture save much less (see below). Every

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