Quizzer turns PDFs into quiz courses
Quizzer is an open-source terminal app that turns PDFs into Duolingo-style study courses. It rasterizes each page, feeds the images to a vision-capable LLM, and generates scaffolded question sets with spaced repetition, adaptive difficulty, XP, streaks, and tutor chat.
The interesting part is not just “PDF to quiz,” but the insistence on page images instead of OCR, which should preserve layout-dependent details that text extraction often drops. It’s a strong fit for dense textbooks and manuals, though the terminal-first workflow keeps it squarely in the power-user lane.
- –Rasterizing pages before generation is a real quality move for charts, figures, sidebars, and formatting-heavy material
- –The progression from true/false to free recall gives it an actual learning loop, not just quiz spam
- –SM-2 scheduling plus adaptive difficulty pushes it closer to a study system than a one-shot generator
- –The OpenAI-compatible backend keeps it flexible for local or hosted models
- –Terminal UX will limit mainstream adoption, but it’s a sharp open-source prototype for serious self-study
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2026-04-06
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2026-04-06
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