arnavn101 / NotesCreator

Automatically Take Notes on any Document, Website, or Video.

NotesCreator - v2.0

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Overview

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This repository provides a summarization tool which returns the most "significant" sentences in a document, online article, or a video. It uses a flask web framework and parses HTTP requests for parameters and attachments.

• NotesCreator: HTTP Server that returns bullet point summaries

Functionality

Fundamentally, NotesCreator is capable of

1) Parsing online articles and generating its summary 

2) Converting audio to text in order to summarize it

3) Taking Word Document, Pdf, or Image as Input and returning its summary

4) Using IBM Watson to get tone of each sentence within a body of text

5) Running a Web Server that handles POST requests for summaries and tone

6) Handling GET requests for statistics on the host OS

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Installation/Configuration

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Linux Environments

On any Linux OS, clone this repository and setup API Keys and Flask Credentials within the config file

  vim config.cfg 

Install requirements of Python

./utils/install_all.sh

Run the Main File:

 source flaskappenv/bin/activate 
 python3 flaskapp.py

Testing Summarizing Output with CURL

curl -X POST  "http://127.0.0.1:5000/" \
              -d formIdentify=notes -d bullet_points=10 \
              -d URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado \
               -d choice=Website > index.html

firefox index.html # Can be any other browser

APIs and Resources Used

  nltk
  SpeechRecognition
  FFmpeg-Python
  TextRact
  Readability-lxml
  # For more, refer to the requirements.txt file