README.md

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# SlideDeck AI

We spend a lot of time on creating the slides and organizing our thoughts for any presentation. 
With SlideDeck AI, co-create slide decks on any topic with Generative Artificial Intelligence.
Describe your topic and let SlideDeck AI generate a PowerPoint slide deck for you—it's as simple as that!

SlideDeck AI is powered by [Mistral 7B Instruct](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2).
Originally, it was built using the Llama 2 API provided by Clarifai.

*Update (v4.0)*: Legacy SlideDeck AI allowed one-shot generation of a slide deck based on the inputs. 
In contrast, SlideDeck AI *Reloaded* enables an iterative workflow with a conversational interface,
where you can create and improve the presentation.


# Process

SlideDeck AI works in the following way:

1. Given a topic description, it uses Mistral 7B Instruct to generate the *initial* content of the slides. 
The output is generated as structured JSON data based on a pre-defined schema.
2. Subsequently, it uses the `python-pptx` library to generate the slides, 
based on the JSON data from the previous step. 
A user can choose from a set of three pre-defined presentation templates.
3. At this stage onward, a user can provide additional instructions to *refine* the content.
For example, one can ask to add another slide or modify an existing slide.
A history of instructions is maintained.
4. Every time SlideDeck AI generates a PowerPoint presentation, a download button is provided.
Clicking on the button will download the file.


# Known Issues

- **Connection timeout**: Requests sent to the Hugging Face Inference endpoint might time out.
A maximum of five retries are attempted. If it still does not work, wait for a while and try again.

The following is not an issue but might appear as a strange behavior:
- **Cannot paste text in the input box**: If the length of the copied text is greater than the maximum
number of allowed characters in the textbox, pasting would not work.


# Local Development

SlideDeck AI uses [Mistral 7B Instruct](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2) 
via the Hugging Face Inference API.
To run this project by yourself, you need to provide the `HUGGINGFACEHUB_API_TOKEN` API key,
for example, in a `.env` file. Visit the respective websites to obtain the keys.


# Live Demo

- [SlideDeck AI](https://huggingface.co/spaces/barunsaha/slide-deck-ai) on Hugging Face Spaces
- [Demo video](https://youtu.be/QvAKzNKtk9k) of the chat interface on YouTube


# Award

SlideDeck AI has won the 3rd Place in the [Llama 2 Hackathon with Clarifai](https://lablab.ai/event/llama-2-hackathon-with-clarifai) in 2023.