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📚 AI-Powered Educational Resource Platform: StudyAid

🛠 Problem Statement

Challenges Faced by College Students:

1. Scattered Lecture Notes

   • Lecture-wise notes are shared across various social media groups, making them hard to organize or retrieve.
   • Manually searching for specific topics in multiple PDFs is tedious and time-consuming.

2. Distributed Question Papers (PYQs)

   • Sessional test and university papers are scattered across different platforms, causing inconvenience in accessing them.

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💡 Proposed Solution

StudyAid addresses these pain points with a structured and efficient platform:

1️⃣ Centralized Resource Management

• Collect and store lecture notes and PYQs in a well-organized format.
• Enable easy access, search, and download of resources by year, semester, and subject.
• Use Google Drive API or Amazon S3 for scalable and reliable file storage.

2️⃣ AI-Powered Topic Search and Summarization

• Leverage Generative AI models to extract specific topics from uploaded PDFs.
• Provide concise summaries or short descriptions of searched topics instantly.
• Analyze patterns in past question papers using GPT to predict potential exam questions.
• Help students focus on high-priority topics and prepare effectively.

3️⃣ One-Stop Platform

• Consolidate all resources (notes, PYQs, summaries) into a single platform.
• Simplify the learning journey by eliminating the need for multiple tools.

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🌟 Features

• 📂 Centralized Resource Management
• 🔍 AI-Powered Topic Search
• 📊 Question Prediction and Summarization
• 🖥 User-Friendly Interface

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🛠 Technology Stack

Component	Technology
Frontend	React.js
Backend	Node.js, Express.js
Database	MySQL
AI	GPT (Generative Models)

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🔑 How to Use Google Generative AI (Gemini API)

1. Visit: Google AI Studio to get your API key.
2. Save the API Key: Add the API key to your .env file as shown below:

   GEM_API=<your-google-generative-ai-api-key>

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🚀 How to Run the Project

1. Clone the Repository:

git clone https://github.com/Abhinav-Vishwakarma/StudyAid-AI.git
cd studyaid

2. Set up the .env File:

Create a .env file in the project root and configure it with your environment variables:

GEM_API=<your-google-generative-ai-api-key>
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_USER=root
DB_PASSWORD=
DB_NAME=topic_metadata

3. Import Database Using phpMyAdmin:

1. Open phpMyAdmin in your browser.
2. Click on the Import tab.
3. Select the .sql file (topic_metadata.sql) provided in the project folder.
4. Click on Go to import the database schema and data.

The database schema includes:

CREATE TABLE tc (
    id INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    topics VARCHAR(255),
    pdfPath VARCHAR(255),
    pageNumber INT
);

4. Set Up Backend:

cd backend
npm install
nodemon index.js

5. Set Up Frontend:

cd frontend
npm install

6. Start Frontend:

cd frontend/src
npm start

7. Access the Platform:

Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000.

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🙌 Contributors

• Team NextGen Nirmaan

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the GPL 3.0 License.

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