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Show HN: Automatic feedback on improving your PowerPoint slides
- cleis 13y agoThis looks cool, but how does it actually work?
- edmack 13y agoIt takes your slides (PPTX format), and analyses each one a bunch of ways, to spot common pitfalls. For example, it checks the reading age, how busy the slides are, how colourful (or not) your colour palette is. It also checks if you put too much text on each slide. It's not fool proof, but is surprisingly accurate for various slide-fails :D
- louisbur 13y agoNicely done!
- robinhoodexe 13y agoAny support for Beamer?
- edmack 13y agoSadly not yet - this was my sunday night hack project, so only got one format in there :)
- yoha 13y agoPDF is a monstruosity. Having the same functionality on it would takes weeks if not months of development. It would be possible to parse a .tex Beamer though.
- Cynddl 13y agoWell, the bullet check is easily feasible. "Too much text" and "difficult words" too. Check https://github.com/johnwhitington/camlpdf https://github.com/johnwhitington/camlpdf, which does a really good job to parse PDF files properly.
- wmbobbitt 13y agoThis is pure genius
- edmack 13y agoFor people lucky enough without real slides to put into the rater, it looks like this: http://imgur.com/SSvMQ2N http://imgur.com/SSvMQ2N
- glitchdout 13y agoI wonder how it would score the NSA slides.
- edmack 13y agoIt judges the reading age is too old and there is too much text and bullet points :)