SmartDocFinder

SmartDoc Finder

🧠 Inspiration

Organizations have countless documents manuals, policies, PDFs but finding the right information quickly can be challenging. SmartDoc Finder was created to turn static documents into an interactive, intelligent knowledge base.

💬 What it does

SmartDoc Finder is an AI-powered chatbot that allows users to ask natural language questions and receive precise answers from company documents. It uses Elastic Search to find relevant text snippets and Google Vertex AI (Gemini) to generate clear, context-aware responses with links to sources.

🛠️ How we built it

Backend: Python + FastAPI Frontend: simple chat interface using HTML/JS or Streamlit Database / Search: Elastic Search for indexing documents AI: Google Vertex AI (Gemini) for generating answers Document Parsing: PyPDF2 for PDF text extraction Hosting: Google Cloud Run (backend) + static frontend 🚧 Challenges we ran into

Configuring Elastic Search for multilingual document search Ensuring accuracy of AI-generated answers Securely integrating Elastic Search with Vertex AI Optimizing performance with large document collections 🏆 Accomplishments we're proud of

Successful integration of Elastic Search + Gemini (RAG workflow) Fully functional end-to-end chatbot Multi-language support with source references Clean and intuitive user interface 📚 What we learned

Building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow Effective use of Elastic Search and Vertex AI Prompt engineering for AI based on source documents Importance of clear UX in technical projects 🚀 What's next

Add user authentication and personalized document access Support more file formats (Word, Confluence, Google Drive) Improve scalability for thousands of documents Build analytics for user questions and knowledge gaps Deploy as a plug-and-play tool for companies 🛠️ Tools & Technologies

Python, FastAPI, Uvicorn Elastic Search Google Vertex AI (Gemini) PyPDF2, Pandas HTML/JS (frontend) Google Cloud Run

Built With

• cloud-run
• elastic-api
• elastic-search
• fastapi
• gemini
• google
• javascript
• python
• vertex-ai