Flashcard Generator by Kabir Bose

A fast, terminal application that leverages Google's Gemini AI to generate flashcards/study notes with ease. It takes a PDF file as input, uses OCR to extract the text out of the PDF file, and uses detailed prompts to generate useful flashcards.

Setup

There are a couple things you need before using this program.

1. Node.js --> Download it here!
2. Google Gemini API key --> Get one here!
3. GhostScript (You can install it locally or globally) --> download it here or here for Mac!
4. Optional: Text Editor (I recommend Visual Studio Code) --> Download it here!

Usage

1. Clone the repository --> git clone https://github.com/KabirBose/Flashcard-Generator
2. Enter the directory with your terminal --> cd /YOUR/PATH/TO/flashcard-generator
3. Install all the dependencies --> npm i or npm install
4. Add PDF files that you want to convert into flashcards into the pdfs folder
5. Run the program --> npm run dev

Screenshots

Here is an example of the input (a PDF file):

The program in process:

The output file (in Markdown language):

Preview of the output file:

Credits

Shoutout to the developers of Tesseract, GhostScript, Google Gemini, and JAGUARAVI (the creator of Node-PDF-OCR) for providing the tools I needed to develop this program.