[01F] Text Summarizer

Visit the website you would like to summarize from.
Select the text that you want to summarize.
Click "Summarize selected portion" on the Text Summarizer extension
Download the summarized text.

Inspiration

Code documentation and academic papers can be very verbose and loaded with tons of information. Being able to break down this information into smaller chunks of understandable text can help us better parse the information and sieve out what is truly important within the text.

What it does

This Chrome extension allows users to highlight any piece of text within the browser, and summarise it using ChatGPT.

How we built it

We used HTML, CSS and JavaScript to build the Chrome extension, and Github to collaborate.

Challenges we ran into

Understanding HTML, CSS and JavaScript syntax and functions
Finding out how Chrome extensions are built
Timing and Financial Constraints: the ChatGPT API is not free to use, and requires the purchase of tokens to utilise

What we learned

How to create Chrome extensions with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
How to use Github and Git to collaborate remotely
How to consider the trade-off between multiple alternatives, and choose the most suitable option with our current situation

What's next for Text Summarizer

Embed a default, specifically fine-tuned model to summarise text into the extension
Allow users to upload their own text summariser models into the extension for summarising text in a way they can understand
Extend the summarising functionality beyond just text and to videos too