Lucida. Page-by-page PDF teacher Source

Lucida / three screens

Read a PDF,
page by page.

Lucida walks a PDF one page at a time, the way a teacher would: the text, its table drawn as a chart, and an image generated on your machine to make the point land. No account, no upload, no API key.

Lucida: page view
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01Page view

Open a PDF.

Choose a file or the 8-page sample. The page is read on your machine, and the original is one key away.

Lucida: page viewFull size
A page with its text, chart, and generated plate.
02Charts

Spotlight the parts that matter.

Tables become charts, key terms are explained on the page, and a generated image sits beside the paragraph it illustrates.

Lucida: chartsFull size
A page with definitions and chart callouts.
03Local

Move page by page.

Arrow keys turn pages. Generated images are cached, so going back is instant, and every file stays in a folder you control.

Lucida: localFull size
A later chapter in the same sample book.
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Processing

Open it locally.

Open the repo python3 -m venv .venv pip install -r requirements.txt ./run.sh
Stated plainlyText extraction does not OCR scanned pages. PDFs, extracted text, and generated images stay in data/<session-id> and are not deleted for you.