ScholAr Desktop App v1.0.0

ScholAr Desktop Application

🚀 What's New

• Complete desktop application with embedded AI backend
• File upload and processing capabilities
• Q&A, Quiz, and Flashcard study modes
• Works completely offline

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📥 Installation

macOS (Intel & Apple Silicon)

1. Download the .zip file for macOS from the release.
2. Unzip it → you will get ScholAr.app.
3. Drag ScholAr.app into your Applications folder.
4. First Launch (macOS Gatekeeper notice):
   • Right-click ScholAr.app → Open
   • macOS will warn that it’s from an unidentified developer
   • Open terminal and paste this cmd xattr -cr /Applications/ScholAr.app
   • ✅ After this first time, it will open normally

⚠️ Note for macOS Users

Because this app is not signed with an Apple Developer ID, macOS may show a warning like:

"ScholAr.app cannot be opened because it is from an unidentified developer."

We apologize for this inconvenience 🙏 — this is the easiest way to make the app freely available for the hackathon without requiring Apple Developer enrollment.

Windows

1. Download the .exe installer.
2. Run the installer and follow the prompts.

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⚙️ Requirements

• Install Ollama
• Required models:
  • gpt-oss:20b (LLM)
  • nomic-embed-text (embedding model)
• Start Ollama in a terminal:

  ollama serve

✨ Features

• AI-powered document processing
• Interactive study tools (Q&A, Quiz, Flashcards)
• No internet required after installation