Built a free, open-source PDF-to-flashcard converter — looking for feedback

Anki Add-ons
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Hey everyone,

I’m a med student and spent way too many hours every semester manually turning lecture PDFs into Anki cards. Existing tools I found were either paid subscriptions with monthly deck limits, or didn’t handle dense/technical text well.

So I built pdf2anki — it takes a PDF and outputs a ready-to-import .apkg file. It’s free, open-source, and runs locally so nothing gets uploaded anywhere.

Repo: pdf2anki

Still actively improving it, so if anyone tries it I’d genuinely appreciate feedback on what breaks or what’s missing — especially on messier PDFs (scanned docs, weird formatting, etc.). Not trying to sell anything, just want it to actually be useful for people who deal with the same problem.

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Time well spent. Don’t try to ankify everything. Make a few high-impact cards for every topic. Focus on quality images to illustrate key concepts, add screenshots from e.g. books or lectures as extra information on the back of your cards. Read this extra information deliberately (when needed) after reviewing the card.