Lecture Slide Flashcards: Slide → Anki
Upload a lecture-slide PDF. Each substantive slide becomes a flashcard: AI-generated study question on the front, the slide image itself on the back. Export as Anki .apkg.
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The Slide Stays the Slide
Our AI reads the structure of each slide, writes a study question for the front, and keeps the original slide image as the back. Diagrams, formulas, layout, exactly as your lecturer designed them.
What does the mitochondrion produce?
ATP, the cell's main energy source.
How to Turn Lecture Slides into Flashcards
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Upload Your Slide PDF
Upload a lecture-slide PDF or PowerPoint exported as PDF. We convert .pptx automatically.
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AI Picks the Substantive Slides
Our AI reads every slide and decides which become flashcards. Title pages, agendas, dividers and 'Thank you' slides are skipped. PowerPoint animation builds (the same slide revealing more bullets each click) collapse to one card.
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Study & Export to Anki
Review every card side-by-side: question on the left, original slide image on the right. Export the whole deck as a ready-to-import .apkg with the slide images embedded as the back of each card.
What is the Lecture Slide Flashcard Generator?
It's a free AI tool that takes a lecture-slide PDF (or a PowerPoint exported as PDF) and turns each substantive slide into one flashcard. The front is an AI-written study question anchored to that slide's actual heading. The back is the original slide image, the exact same diagram, formula, or bullet list your professor showed. Export it as a ready-to-import Anki .apkg and study with spaced repetition.
Why Slide Images on the Back?
Most flashcard generators give you text-only Q&A. That works for definitions but loses everything visual: the diagram showing how the equation behaves, the chart proving the theorem, the table of values you actually need to remember. By keeping the original slide as the back of the card, you study the full information density your lecturer designed, not a stripped-down summary that drops the picture.
Generic PDF flashcard tools treat the document as raw text and generate Q&A pairs from extracted sentences. That's fine for textbook chapters but wrong for lecture slides: slides are dense, visual, and built around figures. Our slide flashcard tool reads each slide as an image, preserves it on the back of the card, and only writes a question on the front. The result: cards that match the way you originally saw the material.
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Common questions
What is a lecture slide flashcard generator?
It's an AI tool that turns each substantive slide of a lecture-slide PDF into one flashcard. The front is an AI-written study question; the back is the original slide image. You can export the whole deck to Anki for spaced repetition.
Does it work with PowerPoint files?
Yes, upload .pptx directly and we convert it to PDF on the server before processing. You don't need to export to PDF yourself.
How does it handle PowerPoint animations?
When you export an animated slide to PDF, you get N pages with the same heading and progressively more content. Our AI detects this and only keeps the most-built-out version, so you get one card per conceptual slide instead of one per animation frame.
Are the slide images embedded in the Anki deck?
Yes. The exported .apkg embeds each kept slide as a JPEG inside the deck's media archive. When you import into Anki, the back of every card shows the original slide image, no broken references, no manual file copying.
What slides get skipped?
Title slides (lecture name + author), pure agendas / table-of-contents, 'Thank you' / 'Questions?' closers, empty section dividers, and pure decoration / references. Everything substantive is kept by default.
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What's the max PDF size?
Up to 50MB and 100 pages on the free tier. PowerPoint files of similar size are fine, conversion is done server-side.
Is it really free?
Yes, it is free to start. You need a free account with just your email, no card. Free gives you about 4 materials a week. Upgrade to Pro for more.
Keep what you make, and do more.
With a free account your results stay saved in a course. Turn them into flashcards or a quiz, and ask Bo when something is unclear.