A Flask Web App for summarizing readings

Quick, read is an app for summarizing readings

Accepted formats include text and HTML Summerizes using extractive or abstractive methods (WIP)

Demo

Usage

Sample input for articles

1. Raw text, or
2. A list of webpages, including those with .txt endings. pdf, ppt and non-textual pages are currently not supported.

Sample setting for desired output length

1. Number of words (e.g. 50) each article will be summarized in, or
2. Ratio of summarization (e.g. 0.2)

Set up

To run it locally, git clone this repo, cd into the folder, set up a virtual environment

virtualenv --python python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate

And install dependencies

make install

Running the app locally

export FLASK_APP=run.py
export FLASK_DEBUG=1
flask run

Tools

Flask, Flask-WTF, BeautifulSoup, Gensim, Transformers, Bootstrap and Google CloudBuild for continuous deployment

Web app

Demo app TODO: pre-load T5 models and tokenziers to save loading time

License

MIT