Present scientific papers by flying over them: paperpres

I made a tool that lets you fly over a PDF and create a presentation from it.

I'm not good at making slides and everything I tried so far just felt much too clunky. I just end up putting bullet points on slides and called it a day.

This was one of the last presentations I had to do during my Digital Humanities studies so I really didn't want to do it the same way all over again. I had this ideas years ago but never found the time to actually code it. Now that tools like Claude Code exist, I can just describe it in detail and just build it little to no time and most likely much better than I could ever do it.

Here's the workflow to create a fly-over presentation of a PDF:

• Select a PDF in the tool (no upload, it'll stay in your browser)
• Create an outline in the left sidebar (what are the main topics?)
• Draw frames on the PDF and assign them to the outline (these are the frames that the presentation will fly over)
• Fill them with content (markdown, for example summarize what's being talked about within that frame)
• Start the presentation and switch to free view by pressing T whenever you want to show something on the paper itself

It has some more features and I'll probably add some more in the future.

Try it out here: https://paperpres-0a8576.gitlab.io/