https://github.com/quentinwach/pdftocards

Convert any book or article in PDF form to a deck of flashcards!
https://github.com/quentinwach/pdftocards

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Convert any book or article in PDF form to a deck of flashcards!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/quentinwach/pdftocards
• Owner: QuentinWach
• Created: 2024-01-09T17:03:57.000Z (12 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-09T17:18:33.000Z (12 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-01-10T19:13:18.972Z (12 months ago)
• Topics: anki, anki-deck, anki-flashcards, chatgpt, flashcards, mathpix, study, study-materials
• Language: Python
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• Size: 26.4 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
![PDFtoCards](header_image.jpg)

**Take any book or article in PDF form and convert it to a deck of flashcards!**

* 👀 **Recognizes** text, equations, images, and (some) handwriting.

* 🧠 **Understands** the content and context of the PDF.

* ✍🏻 **Summarizes** the PDF as questions and answers systematically.

* 📕 **Reformats** everything into .txt, ready to be used in quiz programs like Anki!

ChatGPT is used for understanding the content and MathPix to extract equations and images.

### ❓ How to use...

1. After installing these scripts as well as the depencies listed below and getting the required API keys, add these in the ``api_keys.py`` file.

2. Put the PDF you want to extract flashcards from into this directory, open the ``main.py`` file and change the ``PDF_TITLE = "this_is_your_pdf.pdf"`` variable to the name of the PDF.

3. Run the script!

### 📂 Dependencies

You will need to install the following two libraries ``openai``, ``pypdf``, and get API keys for ``ChatGPT``  and ``MathPix``. Beware that using both will cost money. Even large textbooks will only cost a few cent though and the decks will be done in minutes not weeks!

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This is the hacky bare bone version of the software I had written last year trying to add a bunch more features and creating a web app. But I am not a web developer and so eventually lost interest when OpenAI kept releasing more and more cool stuff that made this seem not all that special. I learned a lot about web dev though and if this little thing helped and you like it, come to tell me on [X (formerly Twitter) @quentinwach](https://twitter.com/QuentinWach) 👋🏻.