SimplifAI

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📖 About the Project — SimplifAI

🌟 Inspiration While researching online, I noticed a recurring challenge: most problem statements, research papers, and official documents are written in dense, jargon-heavy language. Like many others, I often copied these texts into AI tools just to rephrase them into simple terms. That’s when I thought — why not bring this capability directly into the browser? And thus, SimplifAI was born: an on-page study buddy to make reading effortless.

🛠️ How We Built It Frontend: Chrome Extension (Manifest V3, JavaScript, HTML/CSS) Backend: AI APIs (Agentic AI + ML models) to paraphrase and summarize text Workflow: Capture selected text from the webpage. Send it to AI APIs for context-aware simplification. Display results instantly in a popup or sidebar.

📚 What I Learned Deepened my knowledge of Chrome extension architecture (event scripts, content scripts, and background services). Gained experience integrating Agentic AI workflows with real-time user interactions. Learned how to balance accuracy vs. simplicity in paraphrasing.

🚧 Challenges Faced Designing a lightweight yet powerful extension that doesn’t slow down browsing. Handling different writing styles — academic, legal, technical — while maintaining accuracy. Optimizing API calls for speed and cost-efficiency. Ensuring that summaries don’t “oversimplify” and lose critical meaning.

🔢 Fun with Math One fun side experiment was seeing how SimplifAI handled math-heavy papers. For example, it could turn: a complex formula into plain English: “This formula represents a Gaussian integral, often used in probability and statistics.”

🚀 The Vision SimplifAI is more than just a tool — it’s about making knowledge accessible to everyone. From students to professionals, anyone should be able to decode complex information in a click.

Built With

• accelerate
• axios
• body-parser
• cors
• css
• dotenv
• express.js
• fastapi
• fetchapi
• html
• javascript
• json
• microservices
• node-fetch
• node.js
• npm
• pip
• python
• pytorch
• rest
• sentencepiece
• transformers
• uvicorn