Camera to chapter
Point the phone at the page. Study it tonight.
No PDF? Photograph the pages. Chapterlume cleans up each photo, reads it into text you can check, and builds the guide, quiz, and test from exactly what was on the paper.
How a photo becomes a chapter
Everything happens from the Scan pages tab when you create a guide. Each page is read as soon as you add it, so the text is usually ready before you have taken the next photo.
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Snap or pick
Take a photo of a page with the camera button, or choose screenshots from your gallery. Add as many pages as the chapter needs, in order.
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Cleaned up on your phone
Before anything is uploaded, the photo is turned upright, trimmed to the size that reads best, and its contrast is stretched so grey, shadowed paper comes out black on white.
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Read into text
Claude reads the page in natural order, keeps headings, lists, and tables, rejoins words broken across lines, and leaves out page numbers and running headers.
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Check, retake, reorder
Each page shows what was read. Blurry or cut-off pages are flagged so you can retake them, and you can fix a word or drag a page into the right order before building the guide.
What works well
Textbook pages
Two-column layouts, boxed definitions, captions, and worked examples come through in reading order.
Worksheets and handouts
A printed handout from class becomes a chapter of its own, with the same quiz and practice questions.
Notes and whiteboards
Typed notes and clear whiteboard photos read well. Handwriting is read when it is neat.
Scanned PDFs
A PDF that is only page images is read the same way, page by page, without you doing anything extra.
For the clearest scan
Fill the frame with one page and keep the phone flat above it. Even light with no shadow from your hand gives the best read. If a page comes back marked blurry or cut off, retaking it takes a few seconds and the text is replaced in place.
Photos are read and then discarded. The text that was read is what the guide is built from, and you see it before anything else happens.
Keep reading
The path
How it works
Chapterlume does not invent a course outline. It reads the textbook you give it, finds that book's chapters, and builds the guide, quiz, and final test from those pages.
Audio
Listen
Each chapter's reading, names, and practice questions have a play button. The voice is natural, not robotic, and the section being read lights up on the page so eyes and ears stay together.
Inside a chapter
Study guides
Every generated chapter is a study packet: what the chapter is about, what you should be able to do, the terms that matter, and questions with full answers.