D-Forge

D-Forge (Documents Forge) is the one app for everything M.A.V.E.N does to a finished document, at /d-forge. It is a container: pick a tool from the strip at the top and more land there as they are built. Old /d-forge links still open the hub, with the translator one click away under Translator.

D-Forge - M.A.V.E.N

Six tools ship today - Flipbook, Translator, MD Generator, Skill Generator, MinerU and SwitchED. Everything saves into the vault under d-forge/, and nothing is uploaded: every conversion runs on this machine.

Flipbook

Turns a document into a book that opens in the browser and turns pages in 3D.

Input - drop files onto the canvas (or stage them in the FORGE panel): PDF, DOCX / PPTX / ODT / ODP (via LibreOffice) and images all work.
Settings - set the DPI (72-300; higher is sharper and heavier, 144 suits most reading), the engine (pdftoppm or pdftocairo) and the flip mode: 3d (a real page turn), slide or scroll.
FORGE runs as a background job with live stages - extracting, rendering, optimizing, thumbnailing.
Vault panel - lists every book with rename, delete and Share. Share gives a link and a ready <iframe> snippet, and flips a book between draft and published; the embed page carries no M.A.V.E.N chrome, so it sits cleanly inside another site. The original file stays downloadable.
Output - d-forge/Flipbook/<id>/ (pages and thumbnails as WebP, plus the source file).

Translator

Translates a PDF into another language while keeping its layout, images, tables and formulas - a free, self-hosted alternative to paid tools like DeepL Document. Built on the open-source pdf2zh-next (PDFMathTranslate).

Source - paste a URL to a PDF or a local path, or Upload PDF.
Into - the target language (Czech, Spanish, Polish, German, French, Italian, Ukrainian… 25+).
Engine - the translation backend, all free: Google / Bing (no key, best coverage, the default), Ollama (a local model, fully offline), or Gemini via M.A.V.E.N’s Antigravity proxy. For Ollama / Gemini you can name the Model.
Translate - runs as a background job: leave for another app and come back, it is still going; a New session button starts fresh.
Output - two PDFs, the translated one and a bilingual (side-by-side) one, with an inline preview and download links. Both save per project to d-forge/<name>/ in the vault and show in the Media Library. The tool’s promo watermark is stripped automatically.

MD Generator

Any document to clean GitHub-Flavored Markdown, on this machine, with no models and no key. Drop an Office file, PDF or EPUB; it comes back as legible Markdown you can read, diff or feed to an agent.

Runs as a background job; output lands in the vault.
No OCR - an image-only PDF has no text to extract.
Engine: @firecrawl/anydoc (pure Rust).

Skill Generator

Turns a book or manual into a Claude skill. Point it at a document; it extracts the text, plans a skill, and writes one out through the same skill gate as everything else.

MinerU tab

The document-extraction app now lives here as a D-Forge tab; its API is unchanged and the old /mineru route still opens it. See the dedicated MinerU reference for the full tab breakdown.

In short, MinerU converts PDFs, images and office docs (docx / pptx / xlsx) to Markdown straight into your Obsidian vault (~/Obsidian/maven-os/miner-u/<name>/<name>.md + images/). Four tabs - Convert (drag-drop, bulk Choose files, or Scan a folder; Local mode via the mineru CLI, or Cloud mode via mineru.net), Library, History and Settings.

SwitchED

Turns an Articulate Storyline course back into an editable PowerPoint - text stays text, pictures stay pictures. Feed it the .story source or a published SCORM package; the format is read from what is inside, so you don’t have to say which it is.

Input - drop a .story file or a SCORM .zip. Options: Layers as extra slides, and Also render a PDF.
Output - an editable .pptx (built with python-pptx) saved under d-forge/switched/, listed in the tool’s Converted library and in the Media Library.

Setup and dependencies

Flipbook - poppler-utils (pdftoppm / pdftocairo, apt install poppler-utils / brew install poppler) for page rasterising and, for office formats, LibreOffice (soffice). No key.
Translator - a Python venv (Python ≤ 3.13, ML deps have no 3.14 wheels): python3.11 -m venv ~/.maven/dforge/venv && ~/.maven/dforge/venv/bin/pip install pdf2zh-next. Google / Bing need no key; a DocLayout model self-downloads on first run.
MD Generator - @firecrawl/anydoc at ~/.maven/engines/anydoc (scripts/setup-anydoc.sh, or npm install --prefix ~/.maven/engines/anydoc @firecrawl/anydoc). No key.
Skill Generator - git and Python 3, in a venv at ~/.maven/engines/book-to-skill (scripts/setup-book-to-skill.sh; clones virgiliojr94/book-to-skill). No key; falls back to system Python if the venv cannot be built.
MinerU - Local mode needs the mineru CLI (uv tool install "mineru[core]" or pip install mineru[core]); Cloud mode needs nothing. Cloud upgrades to the Precise API with MINERU_API_KEY, or OpenXLab MINERU_ACCESS_KEY + MINERU_SECRET_KEY.
SwitchED - python-pptx (scripts/setup-switched.sh, once) to build the deck, plus LibreOffice (soffice) for the SCORM path. No key. Falls back to an existing D-Forge / CourseGen venv if one is already built.

Where output goes

Everything is written under the vault’s d-forge/ tree: d-forge/Flipbook/<id>/, d-forge/<name>/ for translations, and ~/Obsidian/maven-os/miner-u/<name>/ for MinerU. Results also surface in the Media Library.

Tips

For Flipbook reading, DPI 144 balances sharpness against file size; raise it only for print-quality pages.
Translator, MD Generator and the Skill Generator all run as background jobs - start one, switch apps, and return to a finished result.
MD Generator has no OCR, so scan-only PDFs come back empty; run those through MinerU (with OCR) instead.