What is PaperBanana?
PaperBanana is an academic illustration generator built specifically for researchers who need publication-ready visuals without the manual redrawing grind. Instead of starting from a blank canvas, you paste in paper text, references, or a rough sketch, and PaperBanana transforms that raw material into structured methodology diagrams, statistical charts, and AI research figures. The tool runs on an agentic framework with intelligent layout planning, scientific fidelity checks, and a self-critique loop, so the output actually reflects what your paper says—not just what a generic image generator thinks you meant.
Who it's for
- Busy researchers who are close to submission and need clean methodology diagrams or model architecture figures fast, without outsourcing or hand-drawing.
- AI/ML practitioners who publish benchmark papers and need structured statistical plots—ablation, accuracy, latency panels—that read clearly in conference formats.
- Poster and talk presenters who want multi-panel visuals (problem, method, results, impact) organized into a readable layout without spending hours in design tools.
Key features
Methodology Diagram Generator
Paste your method section, system overview, or rough notes, and PaperBanana turns that source text into a structured pipeline diagram. It handles model architecture diagrams, algorithm flows, and retriever-planner-renderer workflows, so you don't have to map out boxes and arrows by hand.
Sketch Cleanup
If your first figure lives on a whiteboard, tablet, or slide screenshot, PaperBanana can use that draft as guidance and return a cleaner academic illustration. It preserves your original layout while upgrading the visual style to something conference-ready.
AI Figure Editor
Upload an existing diagram, describe the edit in plain language, and PaperBanana produces a cleaner result. This is a practical fix for the last-minute "can we make this clearer?" requests that usually mean hours of manual tweaking.
Poster Panels and Statistical Plots
Beyond flow diagrams, PaperBanana helps you organize problem, method, results, and impact into a readable multi-panel poster layout. It also generates structured chart panels for ablation studies, accuracy comparisons, and latency reports—common in research summaries and benchmarks.
What stands out
Stop manually redrawing graphics—paste your paper text and get clear research visuals.
That's the core promise, and it holds up because PaperBanana isn't a generic image toy. It's a focused workflow with a self-critique loop that checks its own output for scientific fidelity, plus a benchmark evaluation based on 292 curated test cases to keep quality consistent. The tool is also grounded in real entry points—you can browse prompts, use references, or start directly from text—so it fits into an existing paper-writing pipeline rather than requiring a new one.
Worth checking out if…
You're a researcher who spends more time adjusting arrowheads and label positions than actually thinking about the science. If you need methodology diagrams, model architecture visuals, or statistical plots for a paper, poster, or talk, and you want them to be faithful to your source text, PaperBanana is worth a look. It's especially useful near submission deadlines when speed and accuracy matter more than pixel-perfect manual control.
