Open Source Tool academi_slide: Generate Paper Slides Locally Using LLMs
nickemlop · reddit · 2026-08-07
A developer has released academislide, an open-source tool designed to convert research papers or documents into presentation slides automatically using local LLMs (like Ollama or llama.cpp).
- Core Features: Automatically extracts sections, tables, charts, and citations, using prompt optimization to generate a solid first draft.
- Privacy: Runs entirely locally, avoiding the upload of sensitive or unpublished data to cloud services.
- Multilingual: Supports multilingual input and output for cross-language presentations.
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