Intro
The Flashcard Beast is a simple cross-platform desktop application that will maul images of well defined informational text into digital study flashcards.
- The Flashcard Beast:
- is a defense against video death by powerpoint presentations
- can quickly maul material from a digital textbook into study flashcards
- helps prevent carpal tunnel
- might even help your slacker friends pass
Why
This was built on pure annoyance fuel while writing notecards for the Security+ certification. It’s a truly soul sucking death by powerpoint experience. Read more on why and how this was built here.
Stack
- Framework - Tauri
- UI - React
- OCR - tesseract.js
- AI implementation - Ollama
Build
Dependencies:
- Tauri
- npm
- Ollama (optional)
npm run tauri buildBinary will be located at /src-tauri/target/release/.
- caj