AI book illustration generator for any story or book
Paste a page and see the scene drawn in seconds, or upload a whole book and get it back with pictures: a cover, one for every chapter, or one every few pages. Choose from 40 art styles, from cinematic photographs to watercolour storybooks, Arabian manuscripts and Japanese woodblock prints.
Illustrate a page nowNo sign-up needed for your first pictures. An email address raises the free daily allowance.
One passage from Treasure Island (chapter 1), six of the 40 styles.
Illustrate a single page or scene
Paste up to a page of text. The picture follows what the passage actually says: who is there, where, the light and the mood. Not sure which style fits? Choose Unsure? and the style and era are picked for your story. Then scroll the same scene through every style or every era with one tap, and keep the ones you like.
Illustrate a whole book
Upload a PDF, EPUB, Word document, text file, scanned pages or a comic archive (CBZ). You see what it will cost before anything starts, then choose:
- A cover and one picture per chapter, the simplest picture book of your story;
- One picture every 1 to 50 pages (you pick the spacing), on top of the cover and chapters;
- Two versions of each moment, if you want to choose;
- Spoiler-safe placement: a chapter's picture goes at the end of the chapter, not before it.
The book is made on our server, so you can close the page and come back. Download it as an EPUB with the pictures in place (best in the Auto-Reader app or any EPUB 3 reader), a PDF, or every picture in a ZIP or CBZ.
Children's book and picture book styles
Watercolour storybook, classic picture book, warm 3D, Tingatinga, ancient Egyptian wall painting, Arabian rock art, graphic novel and a colouring-book style you can print and colour in. They suit bedtime stories, classroom stories and family books, or a first look at a children's book before you commission an illustrator.
Arabian and world eras
Set any style in one of 29 eras: ancient AlUla and the Nabataeans, Abbasid Baghdad, al-Andalus, the Ottomans, old Najd and historic Jeddah, the Arabian Gulf, ancient Egypt, Edo Japan, the Victorian age and more. Clothes, buildings and objects follow the era you pick.
Private by design
Pictures are made on our own servers, never used for training and never shown to anyone else. They are kept for 48 hours so you can download them, then deleted. See the privacy policy.
AI image generator for text and stories
Looking for a free AI image generator or a text-to-image tool? Auto-Reader turns your words into pictures: type or paste a sentence, a scene or a whole page, and it draws it. Unlike a general AI art generator, it reads the passage first, so a story's characters, places and mood carry into the picture. Use it as a story illustrator, a picture book generator or a book cover maker; the daily free pictures need no sign-up.
Frequently asked questions
Can I illustrate my book with AI?
Yes. Paste a page to get a picture of that scene, or upload the whole book (PDF, EPUB, Word, text, scans or a comic archive) and get a cover picture and one per chapter, or one every few pages, placed into an EPUB or PDF copy of your book.
How do I illustrate a story?
Paste the passage, pick a style (or choose Unsure? and we pick one that suits the story) and an era if you want one, then press Illustrate. The scene is drawn from what your text says, in ten to twenty seconds.
Is there a free AI children's book illustrator?
Yes. Every visitor gets free pictures each day (more with an email address), and the children's styles include watercolour storybook, picture book, warm 3D and a colouring-book style. Credits are only needed once the day's free pictures are used up, which a whole book usually is.
Do I need an illustrator for my children's book?
For a published book many authors still work with an illustrator. AI pictures are a fast way to see your story, make drafts and mood boards, illustrate a family or classroom story, or decide on a style before you commission artwork.
Can it make a book cover too?
Yes. When you illustrate a whole book, the first picture is a cover image drawn from the book as a whole. Add your own title and lettering in any design tool.
Who owns the pictures and is my text kept?
Your pictures are private to you and are never used for training or shown to anyone else. They are kept for 48 hours so you can download them, then deleted; for a single picture your text itself is not kept.