HandSumm

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  Home screen

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  Enter URL and click Summarize. Click Copy Summary to get the summary

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  Original text vs Summary

Inspiration

I sometimes find that I have to traverse through tons of articles and images to quickly and effectively understand what I learn in class. However, it becomes tiring to go through many images and articles especially after a long day of class. I had to find an easier way to do this.

What it does

To get around this, I have made HandSumm, an application that lets you enter the URL of the image and gives a quick summary of the content.

How we built it

HandSumm is built using Flutter and Dart. It makes use of 2 APIs - OCR API for Postman to retrieve text from the image and AYLIEN Text Analysis API to get a summary of the text.

Challenges we ran into

I ran into difficulties in creating chained API requests. As the parameters of the second API call are dependent on the data the first API call returns, I had to find a seamless way to handle the return types and encode the parameters appropriately.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This is the first time I'm finishing a project within 24 hours. At first, I really didn't think I had it in me to create a fully functional project, but now I know I can!

What we learned

This project gave me the opportunity to learn about API calls and JSON parsing and how to implement them in my project.

What's next for HandSumm

The next version of HandSumm will allow users to receive summaries of webpages. HandSumm will also be faster!

Built With

• aylien
• dart
• flutter
• postman