Inspiration
Researching for an essay is a pain so we wanted to make an easier way to find, compile, and summarize the right resources. No more insentient googling with 50 tabs open, quickly collect and summarize all you information in one place with The Lazy Scholar!
What it does
The Lazy Scholar searches for your desired topic and summarizes the top results so you can quickly and easily determine if the link is of value.
The majority of search engines return only a few words matching the search criteria for each link, but the Lazy Scholar does so much more. When a search is requested the program searches through each link returned, summarizing the information contained and displaying only the most relevant information in a paragraph format. You can expand links to generate a more in-depth summary and download the results all to one document through the click of a button.
If you are feeling especially lazy The Lazy Scholar can generate an essay for every word count (quality not guaranteed). If you are feeling especially lazy The Lazy Scholar can generate a complete essay for you, all you need to do is enter the search criteria and required word count (quality not guaranteed).
How we built it
The Lazy Scholar was built with an angular front end and powered by a custom python backed. It utilizes the Google custom search API to generate the top search results. The main body of text at each URL is then collected and run through a text summarization program. This program generates the most relevant content using the TextRank algorithm.
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