Paper2Any
Open tool to generate editable PPTs from research papers
Details
- External ID
- 46315047
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Paper2Any
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 18, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 13
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5725190839694656
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN, We are the OpenDCAI group from Peking University. We built Paper2Any, an open-source tool designed to automate the "Paper to Slides" workflow based on our DataFlow-Agent framework. The Problem: Writing papers is hard, but creating professional architecture diagrams and slides (PPTs) is often more tedious. Most AI tools just generate static images (PNGs) that are impossible to tweak for final publication. The Solution: Paper2Any takes a PDF, text, or sketch as input, understands the research logic, and generates fully editable PPTX (PowerPoint) files and SVGs. We prioritize flexibility and fidelity—allowing you to specify page ranges, switch visual styles, and preserve original assets. How it works: 1. Multimodal Reading: Extracts text and visual elements from the paper. You can now specify page ranges (e.g., Method section only) to focus the context and reduce token usage. 2. Content Understanding: Identifies core contributions and structural logic. 3. PPT Generation: Instead of generating one flat image, it generates independent elements (blocks, arrows, text) with selectable visual styles and organizes them into a slide layout. Links: - Demo: http://dcai-paper2any.cpolar.top/ - Code (DataFlow-Agent): https://github.com/OpenDCAI/DataFlow-Agent We'd love to hear your feedback on the generation quality and the agent workflow!
Enrichment
- Theme
- multimodal generative ai and developer tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- convert research papers to presentations
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Paper2Any is an AI agent workflow that parses academic PDFs (via tools like PyMuPDF or marker), generates slide structure via an LLM, and formats slides using python-pptx or Marp. An AI assistant can easily generate this orchestration script.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Documentation not in English, hard to understand, Demo link has same language barrier issue
Feature requests: Separate README files for each language, English version of demo
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