AI-Assisted SnippingTool OCR Text Summarizer

About

This is a program that can summarize any texts you can screenshot using Microsoft's Snipping Tool with the help of Google's Gemini. I made this cos i was bored lol also dont mind the long name, i suck at naming things. Should've probably consulted with an AI chatbot for a name in hindsight smh

Requirements

• Windows OS (well, duh)
• Microsoft's Snipping Tool (should come preinstalled)
• Python 3.12.1 (the one im using)
• UB Mannheim's Tesseract
• Google Gemini API Key

Instructions

1. Clone this project into your local machine

2. Open up powershell/command prompt inside of the newly cloned folder

3. Initialize it by running

   python -m venv venv

4. Activate the virtual environment by running

   venv\Scripts\activate

5. Install all of the requirements by running

   pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Get tesseract here

7. Install it (preferably in C:\Program Files\)

8. Add Tesseract to your path in Environment Variables (refer to here if you don't know how to do it)

9. Set the GEMINI_API_KEY variable in your local machine for your Gemini API Key with Powershell/Command Prompt by running

   $Env:GEMINI_API_KEY= "(YOUR GEMINI API KEY GOES HERE)"

   e.g., $Env:GEMINI_API_KEY = "qwertyuiop-asdf_fghjkl"

10. Win+Shift+S to take a screeshot using Snipping Tool and then run the program.

11. The output is then printed onto the console