FastFacts

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Inspiration

1. We all hate reading textbooks
   
2. Students are busy
   
3. Students spend a lot of time reading textbooks
   Furthermore we all agree with the following icon from the hit show The Office:
   
   

What it does

FastsFacts is a web app that reads your textbook for you and summarizes it for you to save you time!

How we built it

Using HTML/CSS, JS and some jQuery, Google Vision API and Cohere. Everything is client-side or runs in one of our APIs. No need to roll a dedicated server to run FastFacts! The web pages are all hosted on GitHub pages (both for the actual app and its demo) while still linking to our Domain.com name

Challenges we ran into

We had some weird issues with linking our domain name to GitHub, plus it took some fiddling with CoHere's parameters before we were able to generate good summaries.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Not requiring a server! Last year our project need 11 AWS EC2 instances and one of our team members was charged $200 because he left the instances running 😬 (he got a refund fortunately)
• Good time management!
• The animated CSS background 👀

What we learned

• How to use ML libraries (Google Cloud Vision)
• Practiced callbacks and other JavaScript complexities

What's next for FastFacts

• Add the ability to crop photos
• Preventing popups from being blocked and other Chrome oddities
• Improving our summarizing algorithm's breadth
• Refining our GUI
• Improved mobile support -- maybe even an app!

Built With

• cohere-api
• computer-vision
• css3
• google-cloud
• google-vision
• html5
• javascript