About Video2Any
Video2Any turns a recording back into the slides that were on screen. It is made by one person, it runs inside your browser, and this page says what that means in practice.
What it does
A lecture, a meeting, a webinar: the recording exists and the deck does not. Video2Any watches the recording for the moments the picture changes and then holds still, keeps one clean frame of each, and writes them out as PowerPoint, PDF, Word, Markdown, images, audio or subtitles.
What comes out is what was on screen. The slides are the frames themselves, so a chart is the chart that was shown — not a reconstruction, and not an AI rewriting the material into something that reads well and cites nothing.
Why it runs in your browser
The video is decoded and analysed in the tab you have open. Nothing is uploaded, so nothing sits in a queue, nothing is retained, and a recording your university or your employer would not let you send to a third party never becomes a third party’s problem.
That is also the constraint the whole product is built around: everything it does has to be possible on your own machine, which is why there is no server-side rendering step and no waiting list.
Who builds it
Larry Xue — one person, writing the code, the copy and the support replies. Other things he has built and written are at larryxue.dev, and the slide-detection core of this product is open source at github.com/larry-xue/video-slide-extractor, so the part that decides what counts as a new slide can be read and argued with.
Support goes to support@video2any.com and a person reads it. If a conversion came out wrong, the recording that produced it is the most useful thing you can describe.
What it will not do
It does not rebuild the text inside a slide as editable PowerPoint objects. Reading words off a picture is a guess, and a guess printed over somebody’s lecture is worse than the picture.
It does not transcribe what it cannot hear, sharpen a recording that was blurry when it was made, or recover a slide that was never on screen. Where the limit is, the pages say so.