AI-Sum – Smart Article Summarizer (Chrome Extension)

AI-Sum is a lightweight Chrome extension that summarizes any article you're reading in just a few seconds.
It offers two modes: one using a local model and the other via Hugging Face's API.

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Features

• Summarizes any webpage in 5 sentences
• Works in English and French
• Two modes:
• Local model (FastAPI + Transformers)
• Hugging Face API (BART model)
• Saves summaries locally per page
• One-click copy & fullscreen view
• Clean and fast UI with no tracking

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Preview

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Tech Stack

• Frontend: HTML, JS (Chrome Extension APIs)
• Backend: Python, FastAPI, HuggingFace Transformers
• Models: facebook/bart-large-cnn
• Optional API via HuggingFace

Setup

Option 1 – Use with Hugging Face (API)

Open popup.js and add your Hugging Face token:

const HF_TOKEN = "Bearer <your_token_here>";

Option 2 – Run it locally

python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate       # Windows
pip install -r requirements.txt
uvicorn server:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000