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Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana

https://github.com/gavrielc/Nano-PDF
20•GavCo•44m ago
The new Gemini 3 Pro Image model (aka Nano Banana) is incredible at generating slides, so I thought it would be fun to build a CLI tool that lets you edit PDF presentations using plain English. The tool converts the page you want to edit into an image, sends it to the model API together with your prompt to generate an edited image, then converts the updated image back and stitches into the original document.

Examples:

- `nano-pdf edit deck.pdf 5 "Update the revenue chart to show Q3 at $2.5M"`

- `nano-pdf add deck.pdf 15 "Create an executive summary slide with 5 bullet points"`

Features:

- Edit multiple pages in parallel

- Add entirely new slides that match your deck's style

- Google Search enabled by default so the model can look up current data

- Preserves text layer for copy/paste and search

It can work with any kind of PDF but I expect it would be most useful for a quick edit to a deck or something similar.

GitHub: https://github.com/gavrielc/Nano-PDF

Comments

lxe•26m ago
This is nuts and I absolutely love this. So you convert the PDF into image, edit the image, then convert the image back into a PDF.
treetalker•16m ago
I'd love to see clearer examples: a video, or original pdf / command / result pdf. Very cool!
sultson•11m ago
How cool! It's frustrating how tedious many PDF workflows still are. I've been building something similar in this space[0], but web-based where you visually specify the area to edit. The biggest issue for now is the cost per edit as the Pro version amounts to roughly $0.15/image. However, with some finessing, the original Nano Banana seems to do a great job as well. Have you explored UI-based approaches yourself by any chance?

[0]https://docusera.com/

itsmevictor•2m ago
Very nice! I wonder whether that could be used to get LLMs to annotate pdfs. Say an "agentic" CLI like Claude Code or Gemini-cli reviews a pdf and finds typos, could it use this to annotate the pdf like underlining them in red or something of that sort? That could be nice.

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