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Paper Banana: AI generates polished, publication-ready scientific figures from plain academic text quickly.
Paper Banana is an AI-powered academic illustration generator designed specifically for researchers, students, and educators who need professional scientific figures without design training. Instead of struggling with complex graphics tools, you simply describe your method, architecture, workflow, or concept in plain language, and Paper Banana turns that text into a clean, publication-ready figure in minutes.
At the core of Paper Banana is a research-optimized pipeline for text‑to‑scientific‑figure generation. You can create system architectures, experimental workflows, concept maps, statistical plots, and more, directly from your methodology text. The AI understands academic structure and terminology, so it can translate detailed descriptions into clear, well-organized visuals that match how scientists actually communicate their work.
Paper Banana supports multiple academic illustration styles, including diagrams, flowcharts, architecture figures, schematics, and concept maps. Output is high‑resolution (up to 2048px), making it suitable for journal submissions, conference posters, slide decks, and theses. For more advanced control, you can move from AI generation into the connected Scientific Figure Editor and Diagram Maker tools, where you can fine‑tune labels, colors, panels, and layouts as editable SVGs.
A 5‑agent quality pipeline (Retriever → Planner → Stylist → Visualizer → Critic) ensures that each figure is faithful to the source text, visually simple, easy to read, and aesthetically polished. Paper Banana has been evaluated on PaperBananaBench, a benchmark of 292 NeurIPS‑style test cases across four key dimensions: faithfulness, simplicity, readability, and overall aesthetics, demonstrating significant improvements over baseline models.
Paper Banana fits naturally into the modern research visual workflow. Use it to generate first‑draft figures for papers, refine them for posters, or create educational diagrams for teaching materials. With affordable, credit‑based pricing tailored to academic users, it removes the friction of hiring designers or learning complex illustration software, helping you focus on the science while still presenting your work with professional‑grade visuals.
