About PicX
Turn Papers Into Pictures
PicX is a free, open-source tool that transforms academic papers into AI-generated visual whiteboards — making research faster to read and easier to share.
Mission
Research should be visual
Dense academic papers are hard to skim. PicX extracts the key ideas and renders them as a structured whiteboard — so you can grasp a paper's contribution in minutes, not hours.
Daily Digest
Fresh from HuggingFace, daily
PicX automatically fetches the top papers from HuggingFace Daily Papers, generates AI summaries and whiteboard images, and publishes them to the public gallery — so the latest research is always visualized and ready to explore.
HuggingFace publishes daily papers
PicX fetches and processes each paper
AI generates summary + whiteboard image
Published to the public gallery
Tech Stack
Built on modern infrastructure
Cloudflare Workers
Edge runtime
Cloudflare D1
SQLite at the edge
TanStack Start
Full-stack React SSR
Gemini / OpenAI
AI summarization
Cloudflare R2
Whiteboard image storage
Open Source
MIT licensed
Open Source
Free to use, free to fork
PicX is fully open source. Bring your own API keys, self-host it, or just use the hosted version at picx.dev — no paywalls, no subscriptions.
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