Local AI slide generation for privacy-constrained healthcare: HTML vs PPTX
AdRepulsive7837 · reddit · 2026-10-23
A Reddit user in healthcare, unable to use cloud AI coding tools for privacy reasons, compares two fully local AI slide-generation workflows for teaching non-IT colleagues:
- HTML slides: have a local LLM generate one .html per slide, played in Chrome via an existing player or a vibe-coded one; more capable layouts and fun with JS, but distributing means copying the whole folder to the presentation machine
- PPTX: have the LLM write Python using python-pptx to render .pptx files directly; straightforward and traditional, but output tends to be generic and boring
The author leans toward HTML as more promising and asks for community input.
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