A specialized tool for transforming Polito university PDF slides into comprehensive, bilingual Markdown study notes.
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1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install polito-notes
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
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Help me install polito-notes using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
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What is Polito Notes Pipeline?
Polito Notes is a sophisticated automation pipeline designed to bridge the gap between static lecture slides and dynamic study environments. By leveraging Openclaw Skills, this tool extracts content from PDF files and synthesizes it into high-quality, narrative Markdown notes. It is specifically tailored for students at Politecnico di Torino, maintaining a strict bilingual structure that generates both Italian and English versions of the material simultaneously.
Beyond simple text extraction, the skill reconstructs visual logic into Mermaid diagrams and formats mathematical expressions into LaTeX. It follows a rigorous technical taxonomy, ensuring that every definition, formula, and architectural detail from the original source is preserved. This makes it an essential component for building a local knowledge base of university coursework.
Polito Notes Pipeline Use Cases
- Automating the transcription of university lecture slides into clean, organized Markdown.
- Generating synchronized bilingual study materials for international degree programs.
- Creating structured technical documentation from PDF-based architectural or logic diagrams.
- Maintaining a version-controlled repository of academic notes with automatic folder organization.
How Polito Notes Pipeline Works
- The system extracts raw text from a provided PDF file using pdftotext or python-based fallback mechanisms.
- It identifies the target course and semester to resolve the correct directory within the local repository structure.
- The skill determines the lecture number and title based on user input or file metadata to create a standardized folder.
- It processes the content into an Italian narrative, ensuring all technical terms are highlighted and visual data is converted to Mermaid code.
- An equivalent English version is generated, ensuring natural academic phrasing while maintaining identical structural formatting.
- The files are written to the target directory, with automatic backups created if existing notes are being updated.
Polito Notes Pipeline Setup
To use this within your Openclaw Skills environment, ensure you have the required dependencies installed:
# Install poppler-utils for PDF text extraction
sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
# Set up the Python environment for fallback extraction
python3 -m venv ~/.local/share/local-rag/venv/
source ~/.local/share/local-rag/venv/bin/activate
pip install pdfminer.six
Polito Notes Pipeline Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes data in a hierarchical structure based on academic years and semesters. Data is stored in the following taxonomy:
| Level | Format | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Course Folder | [course-name]/notes/ |
Root directory for a specific subject. |
| Lecture Folder | [N-kebab-title]/ |
Individual lecture directory where N is the lecture number. |
| notes.md | Markdown | Comprehensive lecture notes in Italian. |
| notes-en.md | Markdown | Comprehensive lecture notes in English. |
| .bak files | Backup | Automatic copies of files created before an update. |
Polito Notes Pipeline Advanced Features
- Intelligent visual reconstruction: Converts slide diagrams into functional Mermaid flowcharts and sequences.
- Narrative synthesis: Replaces fragmented bullet points with fluid, context-aware prose.
- Mathematical accuracy: Automatically formats all equations in LaTeX with verbal symbol definitions.
- RAG-ready output: Notes are structured for immediate ingestion by local-rag Openclaw Skills for semantic search.
- Incremental updates: Ability to merge new PDF content into existing note files without losing previous annotations.
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