Any2Poster vs Text to Poster

Any2Poster converts source material into academic posters and produces PDF, PNG, and HTML artifacts. It accepts documents and presentations, LaTeX, Markdown, plain text, Jupyter notebooks, HTML, URLs, and YouTube URLs. Its six-stage process parses, chunks, analyzes, plans, generates, and compiles posters; saved checkpoints let a run resume from cached stages. Poster text is rendered with HTML and CSS through Playwright, which the project says avoids typography hallucination. Suitable figures can be extracted from the source, while AI image generation can supply panels without a suitable figure. An optional panel-level review checks overflow, blank space, font size, figure balance, and reading order. Users can select named themes, use automatic theme selection, or set custom colors and poster dimensions. The project is open source under an MIT license, with source and Docker installation instructions for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Setup requires Python 3.10 or newer, the Playwright Chromium browser, and an OPENROUTER_API_KEY. A web interface is marked as coming soon.

Text to Poster turns a written brief into up to four poster directions, including artwork, layout and typography. Users can also paste an article, event page or announcement URL; the service extracts a title, key message and points into an editable brief. Listed styles are Movie, Minimal, Anime, Business, Vintage and Neon. Guests can make two watermarked generations without signing in, and those images remain available for 24 hours. A free account receives 20 welcome credits that do not expire, with account images kept for seven days. The free plan costs nothing and includes 1K output, low or medium quality, watermark-free downloads and up to two reference images. Paid plans include Creator at $9.90 a month for 500 credits, Studio at $19.90 a month for 1,000 credits, and Scale at $49.90 a month for 3,000 credits. A standard 1K poster costs two credits and a 4K Max run costs 115; failed generations are not charged. Subscription posters may be used commercially subject to model provider terms; watermarked trial posters are for personal use only.