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Paper Humanizer — Development skill for Claude Code

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Claude Code skill: turn a PDF research paper into an interactive HTML reading aid for non-native English readers (rephrases complex sentences, never summarizes).

How to install Paper Humanizer

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open ThCyber/paper-humanizer and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Paper Humanizer does

Claude Code skill: turn a PDF research paper into an interactive HTML reading aid for non-native English readers (rephrases complex sentences, never summarizes).

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README

paper-humanizer

A [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) skill that turns a PDF research paper into an interactive HTML reading aid for non-native English readers — especially useful for humanities and social-science papers.

It keeps the paper's full structure and **never summarizes**: every claim, number, quotation and citation survives. Only genuinely complex sentences are rephrased, sentence by sentence, into simpler English. The rephrased version sits next to the original (click to reveal it), with margin notes for jargon and context, key claims highlighted, and a few "pause and think" questions per section.

What you get

An interactive HTML page: toggle between Simplified / Original / Both, click any rephrased sentence to see the author's exact wording, margin notes (terms, context, key claims, assumptions, hedges), and collapsible "pause and think" challenges with hidden answers.
An optional PDF, built from the HTML, with the rephrased text only (no click-to-reveal in a static PDF) and all challenge answers shown.
A verification pass (scripts/verify.py) that checks every rewrite kept its numbers, years, citations and quoted text exactly, and flags anything that looks like it might have summarized instead of rephrased.

Install

Copy this folder into your Claude Code skills directory:

git clone https://github.com/ThCyber/paper-humanizer.git ~/.claude/skills/paper-humanizer
pip install pymupdf

(A PDF export additionally needs Google Chrome or Chromium installed.)

Use

In a Claude Code session, just hand it a PDF:

Turn this paper into something easier to read: `~/Downloads/some-paper.pdf`

Claude will ask a couple of quick questions (target English level, your field), then run the pipeline described in [SKILL.md](SKILL.md):

scripts/extract.py — PDF → structured JSON (sections, paragraphs, quotes, footnotes, references), handling two-column layouts, running headers, hyphenation, and bold/heading detectio