StudyGen - Generate Study Guides on the fly from PPT, PDF, DOC, IMG

[desert comet]

https://www.studygen.ai

Hello everyone! I'm here to share with you an exciting new tool that can revolutionize the way you study and learn new material. It's called StudyGen, and it's specifically designed for students who want to make the most out of their study time without feeling overwhelmed. With StudyGen, you'll be empowered to take control of your learning experience and achieve better results.

Let me share a little bit to how StudyGen can help you overcome common studying challenges.

Are you ever unsure about which material you should focus on while preparing for an exam?

StudyGen solves that problem by analyzing the educational materials you provide – be it a PDF, PowerPoint presentation, or even an image from your textbook – and generates a comprehensive study guide for you.

FEATURES:

The study guide includes Concepts, Key Terms, and Practice Problems, allowing you to quickly grasp the essential information without wasting time on irrelevant details. Think of it as having a personal tutor who knows exactly what you need to succeed.

StudyGen also offers an EDIT mode, where you can interact with Garry, a specialized AI model in tutoring created from OpenAI's GPT-3.5 integration. Garry is there to answer your questions, validate your answers, and help you truly understand the material. With every study card you create, you'll have a unique Garry, specialized in that card's topic. It's like having a knowledgeable friend by your side, guiding you every step of the way.

When you're ready to review, switch to STUDY mode, and go through your cards just like you would on Quizlet. You can even mark cards for later review, ensuring you don't miss any crucial information.

And to make your study experience even more seamless, StudyGen allows you to connect your Google account, saving all of your study guides to a database for future access. This means you can easily edit, view, and study your guides anytime and anywhere you'd like.

[light wasp]

When i try to upload pdf, its throwing an error pdf could not be uploaded.

[desert comet]

Hmm, I can look into it if you send me the pdf, there is a file size limit

@light wasp

Also if anyone has any critiques or suggestions, I’d be glad to hear. I’m currently building a landing page to better help understand how to use the tool.

[ocean jay]

@desert comet Works with docx files but not ppts!

But at least I made three study cards.

[desert comet]

hmm think i need to allow ppt files right now its pptx, ill make that fix tn

[ocean jay]

Txt, doc and odt files too

[desert comet]

PPT, and DOC files are outdated and most documents are now made with the pptx and docx extension? It's little difficult to parse the text from them. Do you think it would still be valuable to have these options? @ocean jay

Txt, odt files have been added though.

And I plan to add a way to add URL's to parse dense website material.

[ocean jay]

Of course, especially if the lecturer or teacher gives them files from the web in older formats.

I as an educator myself have encountered older ppts and docs in my classes. And many of the still lie online.

[desert comet]

Sounds good, I'll work on adding support for those. As an educator, are there any features you'd like to see or problems you have that need solving in this area of education (study guides, creating material for students to learn)?

04/30 Updates:

• Added chat persistence, can now look back on unique chat history with ai tutor from any card and any study guide you have created in the past.
• Can add new blank cards to study guide to fill in yourself (currently adding remove feature).
• Support added for ODT, TXT files.
  TODO:
• Add remove feature for cards,
• Add ability to submit links, attempt to parse HTML text content from link to convert to study guide. Could be useful for dense educational pages.
• Add feature to auto fill out study cards with gpt.

[ocean jay]

Some cards should be pre-filled with the answers at the back, not just cards with contents on the front only.

[ocean jay]

Oh also fix pdf file support, and pdf image support too

[desert comet]

Fixed PDFs, the issue was the library I was using worked locally but not on the serverless instance I'm hosting on.

And that's a great idea, I'll add PDF images because I know a lot of pdf docs are like that.

[ocean jay]

Still doesn't work with the PDF

[desert comet]

Could you send me the pdf you're trying to upload? I can look into it.

[ocean jay]

@desert comet here

[desert comet]

Hmm, it worked for me. Surprisingly, even being in a different language it managed to parse it. Interestingly though some of the study cards were made in english while others were in the native language of the document/

[ocean jay]

Texts in other languages I tried to parse them into English, just like lots of OpenAI API projects I have tried.

I made an account yesterday and have it create two study guides from a Tagalog text and an English one.

[sterile quest]

Do we need to login to use this tool?

[ocean jay]

No login is required, login is there only for saving flashcards

[desert comet]

Login is never required, if you'd like to test out the app and see how it works, upload your document and you'll get a study guide to play around with. However, if you want to save your work and come back to your study guide later, logging in is the only way we have to attach generated study guides to a user so you can come back to them later and have your changes be saved.

[sterile quest]

Ohh okay thanks! But I’m getting an error with uploading my pdf file

[desert comet]

How long is the pdf, pretty much behind the scenes we take in the file, break it down into the maximum token segments (4096) that gpt-3.5 can handle and process the individual chunks. I've never had an issue with long pdf's locally, but when hosting I think the long request gets timed out.

If you'd like, I'd recommend that you try to print your current large pdf, and for the print option click, save as pdf, and select at smaller range of pages (like chapters or large topics within the pdf) to get a higher quality, and more specialized study guide.

I'm guessing this is the reason why it's not working, and I'm looking into ways to stop that. If you'd also like to help out, dm the pdf to me or in this chat and I can try to debug this specfic issue. It would definitely help me out with making the app better and more reliable.

@sterile quest

[red smelt]

Super-cool. Can you share any details about your tech stack? Langchain? Anything open source? Looks great!

[acoustic cradle]

seems not so friendly with Chinese, I uploaded some images related to Physics, added the time line and some other requests, the result is not as expected, maybe lauguage matters.

[desert comet]

Language does seem to matter.

Also update, overhauled the backend to now be hosted on AWS so it should be able to handle all requests and files without getting overloaded and timing out user requests.

[errant steeple]

hi it says api overloaded?