Learnr

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  Scala Closures!

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  Molarity!

Inspiration

Learnr is inspired by the pain of trying to copy down text snippets from youtube videos without transcripts.

What it does

Learnr parses text from youtube videos in real time and even offers suggested reading links / definitions for further learning.

How we built it

We built Learnr with electron / react on the frontend and flask / opencv / tesseract / selenium on the back

Challenges we ran into

We initially planned on writing Learnr in a chrome extension but switched to electron after many complications

What we learned

• opencv is impossible to install on linux
• ocr does not play nice with code snippets

Built With

• electron
• flask
• javascript
• node.js
• opencv
• python
• react
• tesseract