Padh Ke Batao
Snap a photo of any document and hear it explained in simple Hindi or English — what it says, what to do, by when — read aloud, all processed locally.
"Padh ke batao" is Hindi for "read it and tell me" — what the author's grandfather says whenever he hands someone a letter he can't read. Padh Ke Batao is built for him: take a photo of a document — a bank notice, hospital report, pension circular, government letter — and get it explained in simple Hindi or English: what it says, what to do, and by when. Then it reads the explanation aloud, in a voice he actually enjoys listening to. The privacy architecture is the point. An open-weight vision model (Qwen 3.5) reads the photo locally through Ollama on a laptop with no GPU, so the photo never leaves the computer. A Fastify server extracts six structured fields — document type, summary, key details, action needed, deadline, urgency — with a deadline countdown, and only the summary text is sent to ElevenLabs for the voice; without a key it falls back to a voice installed on the computer. No account, no upload, no per-document cost. It was built with Claude Code as a pair programmer for the Hacktoberfest "Build for a Friend" challenge, and the dev diary shows the agent doing real work: renaming the package, regenerating screenshots when one was cut off, and reasoning through why ElevenLabs stays optional. One big button, Hindi/English switchable anytime, honest limitations section included. Note: This project is curated by the VibeFix editors from public sources. All rights belong to the original creator.
