VidyaChitra — AI Study Companion That Turns Indian Textbook PDFs into Videos, Audio & Exam Prep in Regional Languages

This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community The Community Indian school students who study in regional languages — Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi. Over 250 million students across India learn from State Board and NCERT textbooks written in these languages, yet almost every AI-powered study tool available today is English-first. A Class 10 student in rural Karnataka studying electromagnetism from a Kannada textbook has no AI tutor, no animated explainer, no spoken narration — just a dense PDF and an overworked teacher. VidyaChitra is built for them. What I Built VidyaChitra (विद्याचित्र — "picture of knowledge" in Sanskrit) is an AI study companion that transforms any school textbook chapter PDF into a complete study kit in the student's own language: Chapter summary — teacher-style explanation, streamed within seconds Animated explainer video — AI writes a Manim animation script for the key concept, rendered as MP4 with labels in the student's language Aud