🔍 Research Assistant - AI-Powered Content Summarizer Tool

Research Assistant is a dual-module productivity tool that combines a Spring Boot backend with a Chrome Extension frontend to provide intelligent summarization and topic suggestions using the Gemini AI API.

📚 Just highlight text, click summarize, and get instant insights. Ideal for students, researchers, and writers!

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Features

Gemini AI Integration (via Spring Boot Backend)

• Summarizes large chunks of text into concise, readable summaries.
• Suggests related research topics and further reading, formatted with bullet points.
• Uses Google's Gemini AI API via WebClient (non-blocking HTTP client).
• Handles JSON parsing via Jackson and structured response handling via Lombok.

🌐 Chrome Extension (Frontend)

• Clean, minimal UI with:
  • Summarize button
  • Note-taking area with save functionality
• Injects into webpages for seamless integration with articles, research papers, blogs, etc.

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⚙️ Backend Setup (Spring Boot)

✅ Prerequisites:

• Java 21+
• Maven 3.8+
• A valid Gemini API key

📦 Build & Run

# Navigate to backend directory
cd research-assistant-backend

# Build the project
./mvnw clean install

# Run the Spring Boot application
./mvnw spring-boot:run

## 🌍 Chrome Extension Setup

### Load Locally

1. Go to `chrome://extensions/`
2. Enable **Developer mode**
3. Click **Load unpacked**
4. Select the `research-assistant-extension` directory

You’ll see a panel with:

- 🧠 **Summarize** button (which calls the Spring Boot API)
- 📝 **Note section** to manually store findings

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