Turn a PDF into a Complete Online Course
Upload any PDF (handbook, SOP, textbook chapter, scanned scan) and get back a multi-module course with slides, quiz, flashcards, and facilitator guide.
PDFs are the format most knowledge actually lives in — employee handbooks, SOPs, policy manuals, textbook chapters, research papers. The trouble is turning them into something a learner can interact with. Kompyl ingests any PDF (text-layer or scanned-and-OCR'd), extracts the structure, and produces a multi-slide deck with a matching quiz, flashcards, study guide, and facilitator notes — in about 60 seconds.
Real output · 3-slide preview
What Kompyl actually returns
Source preview: AI Course Generator from PDF
Module 1
New Hire Onboarding
Sourced from: company_handbook_v4.pdf · 38 pages
Day 1 Essentials
- Sign IT acceptable-use policy + 2FA enrolment.
- Meet the team — 1:1s scheduled by your manager.
- Read sections 1–3 of the handbook (mission, values, code of conduct).
- Set up dev environment from /docs/setup.md.
Takeaway
Quiz preview
12
questions auto-generated from the handbook
Each ships with an answer key and one-line rationale.
What this means in practice
- Accepts PDFs up to 25 MB / 200 pages.
- Scanned PDFs are OCR'd via vision AI automatically (no separate tooling).
- Outputs an editable PPTX — change titles, swap stats, regenerate sections in the dashboard editor.
- Quiz is auto-generated from the document's definitions, statistics, and key points.
- Bundled as a ZIP: PPTX + CSV quiz + CSV flashcards + Markdown study guide + Markdown facilitator guide.
Common questions
- Does Kompyl handle scanned PDFs (no text layer)?
- Yes. The PDF extractor runs a vision-OCR pass via OpenRouter (gemini-2.5-flash) when no text layer is detected. Scans, photographs of pages, and image-only PDFs all become extracted text before the LLM ever sees them. No separate OCR step on your side.
- What's the longest PDF Kompyl can process?
- The hard cap is 25 MB / 200 pages on a single upload. Above that, split into chunks or paste the most relevant section as text. Larger limits ship with the Team plan in the next 30 days.
- What is an AI course generator?
- An AI course generator is a tool that turns a document, brief, or topic into a structured online course — typically including slides, a quiz, and supporting study material — in a single workflow. The goal is to compress what used to be 8–20 hours of instructional design into a few minutes of upload + review.
- How is Kompyl different from Gamma or HeyGen?
- Gamma generates slides. HeyGen generates avatar video. Kompyl generates a complete course kit — slides plus a quiz, flashcards, a study guide, and a facilitator guide — all from one upload. You can edit every block, swap palettes, change languages, and re-render.
- Can I upload a PDF and get a course back?
- Yes — Kompyl accepts PDF, DOCX, PPTX, TXT, MD, HTML, and CSV uploads. Scanned PDFs are OCR'd via vision AI automatically. The PDF is read, structured into modules, and rendered as a multi-slide deck with a matching quiz and facilitator guide.
- Is there a free version?
- Yes — anonymous visitors get a free preview and signed-in free accounts get a small monthly quota. Paid plans unlock larger course lengths, more downloads, and premium palettes.
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