paper-slide-deck_skill

Overview

This skill generates professional slide deck images from academic papers and other content. It creates comprehensive, editable outlines, auto-detects and extracts figures from PDFs, and then produces individual slide images plus optional PPTX/PDF outputs. Designed for readable, self-contained slides optimized for sharing and offline consumption.

How this skill works

The skill analyzes source content (PDF or text), selects or auto-suggests a visual style, and builds three outline variants. For PDFs it runs automated figure detection to map figures and captions to slides, extracts images when requested, and inserts IMAGE_SOURCE metadata into the outline. Finally it converts the outline into per-slide prompts and generates high-resolution slide images; slides can be merged into PPTX or PDF.

When to use it

• You want slides from a conference paper, thesis, or arXiv PDF
• You need a self-contained, shareable deck for reading or social media
• You want automatic extraction of figures/tables from a PDF
• You need style-consistent slide images that match audience level
• You want an editable outline before image generation

Best practices

• Provide the source PDF or detailed text to preserve fidelity
• Choose target slide count and audience to guide summarization
• Pick a visual style (or rely on auto-style signals) before generating images
• Use --outline-only to review and edit outline before image generation
• Confirm figure mappings and captions when working with academic PDFs

Example use cases

• Generate a 10-slide summary of a conference paper with extracted figures and method diagram
• Create executive-friendly slides from technical content using the minimal style
• Produce educational slides in sketch-notes style for a tutorial or classroom
• Convert a research article into a shareable PDF and a PPTX with all source figures included
• Draft multiple style variants and let stakeholders pick one before final image generation