NoteFinder

Inspiration

What inspired our group was that we spent way too much time locating very specific memes in our camera gallery and thought it would be so much easier to have something look it up for us. With this idea, we looked into education and thought a NoteFinder app would be of great use to students all across the globe.

What it does

Our application is built to help students locate their notes. I myself, and just about every other student on the planet knows that when you take pictures of someone's notes, or even your own, it sits in your camera gallery collecting dust. It's difficult to go through your entire gallery just to find a specific piece of note thus we built NoteFinder. With our application, you can simply upload your notes to our service, We will detect the text on it (Can be handwritten!), and store it in our database. If ever you must retrieve notes on a specific topic, let's say notes on system of equations, You simply search for that and any notes related to that topic will be returned back to you at the touch of a button.

How we built it

We built this using: MongoDB React.js Node.js Express.js Auth0 Google Computer Vision

Challenges we ran into

Right off the bat, we had issues hooking up to the google cloud services for a while. It was sad to find out that it was because of quotation marks we were stuck on something so trivial. Regardless, we took it as a learning experience and kept moving forward to finish our project.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud that we learnt how to use the google cloud api in a span of 24 hours along with getting familiar with React.js

What we learned

As our second virtual hackathon, it's been a great learning experience for all of us. Our group feels that we've gotten familiar with google's cloud services specifically googles computer vision api.