01 The problem
What this project is designed to make easier.
Study material trapped in PDFs is slow to review when extracting, summarizing, and checking understanding each need a separate step.
Open-source desktop app
scholaris
A desktop study assistant that OCRs PDFs and generates AI summaries, answers, and quizzes with markdown and LaTeX previews.
Built by Laurent Maxhuni, a full-stack developer and AI builder from Vushtrri, Kosovo. About Laurent Maxhuni
02 My approach
A deliberate route, not a feature dump.
I assembled a desktop study assistant that combines OCR, model-assisted summaries and questions, and readable Markdown or LaTeX previews.
03 What I built: technologies and focus
The tools and details behind it.
Built with tkinter and ttkbootstrap, with a dark multi-page GUI, PaddleOCR/RapidOCR text extraction, and Groq or OpenAI models.
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