Drag to summarize

Inspiration

I wanted to make something useful using the chrome built in ai. My main goal was to build somewhat of a end to end project so i can serve it to people and along the way learn how to make a end to end project and chrome built in ai.

What it does

My project is a chrome extension called Drag2Summarize It's very simple and minimalistic you just drag the region of text you want it to be summarized and it summarizes it

How we built it

I used chrome extension as a medium to detect the dragged text and chrome built in ai to analyze it

Challenges we ran into

• chrome extension tool publishing => I live in korea and the chrome extension publishing workflow has some problems so I wasn't able to publish the extension at time :( the support is somewhat poor surprisingly
• browser rendered pdf analyze issue => because pdf is rendered by Chrome’s internal renderer, so there’s no accessible DOM which makes it impossible for the extension to get the text ### Accomplishments that we're proud of Actually published (at least in the review stage) a project from start to end! ### What we learned This is a bit of a tangent but besides technical things I learned making something from start to finish is a very rewarding feeling and we as developers should do it more often! ### What's next for Drag to summarize because of the following challenges I faced I will try to support pdf renders too by screenshot + local OCR and then analyzing the text

Built With

• chrome
• gemini-nano