[HN Gopher] Show HN: Tuchu - Automatically highlight the importa...
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Show HN: Tuchu - Automatically highlight the important parts of a
document
Author : heresjohnny
Score : 42 points
Date : 2020-12-28 11:47 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (tuchu.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (tuchu.app)
| bzb6 wrote:
| I would name it "tuchus" and fill the web page with provocative
| imagerie
| dang wrote:
| Please don't do this here.
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| Edit: please really don't keep doing this here.
| monkeydust wrote:
| You need an example pdf on the page. Cycle through a few topical
| examples e.g brexit deal full text (it's over 1000 pages!)
|
| https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/1/2020/EN/COM-2...
| toufique wrote:
| Love this! Would be amazing as a Chrome Extension for web pages.
| theaussiestew wrote:
| Looks useful. What framework did you use to implement TextRank?
| 0xffff2 wrote:
| Is Firefox not supported? Tried submitting a paper and it says
| "File is not a PDF, too large, or corrupt" in Firefox. Seems to
| work fine in Chrome.
|
| In any case, the paper I submitted is one I coauthored, so I like
| to think I'm a reasonably good judge of what's important. Maybe
| the tool just isn't a good fit for my field or my writing, but
| the highlights appear to be essentially random.
| heresjohnny wrote:
| Hey HN,
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| I created Tuchu because I wanted to increase my reading
| efficiency. It is a tool that automatically highlights the
| important parts of any document. Most documents take about two to
| three seconds to process. It's directed at students, researchers,
| or anyone with a reading list and little time for that matter.
|
| During my studies I had to go through a lot of literature, for
| example when I had to select relevant material for my thesis, or
| when I had to familiarize myself with a course's reading list.
| Tuchu helped me to get up to speed in these cases. What started
| off as a command-line Python script is now a web application that
| does its analysis without any back-end. I don't get to see your
| documents.
|
| The underlying algorithm that selects what's relevant is called
| TextRank, an unsupervised summarization method [1]. It models a
| document (or a collection thereof) as a fully connected graph.
| Its nodes are parts of the text -- I use sentences -- and the
| edges between them are weighted by a similarity measure, in my
| case simple word overlap. The subset of sentences with the
| highest PageRank are then highlighted. For good measure, I also
| highlight sentences that contain signal words that -- in my
| academic experience -- signify importance.
|
| It's important to note that Tuchu is not a substitute for doing
| your own reading. It could make you a faster reader by directing
| your attention to the important parts, but you'll still have to
| ponder about the true essence of a document yourself.
|
| [1] https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W04-3252/
| karthikb wrote:
| How did Tuchu's highlighting compared to the abstract?
| donclark wrote:
| I dont have a PDF laying around that I could test it with. It
| would be nice if you had an example link to a PDF, or
| screenshots showing an example of the highlighting that the
| service does.
| yorwba wrote:
| The background image with the stylized images of highlighted
| documents is an ideal candidate for replacement with a
| screenshot of actual highlighted documents.
| krat0sprakhar wrote:
| Looks interesting! Is there a way to try it out on a webpage
| instead of PDF?
| [deleted]
| quaintdev wrote:
| This kind of service would be amazing with a browser
| extension.
|
| Nowadays a lot of bloggers/reporters keep running round in
| circles before coming to a point. I actually wrote a post
| related about this a while back [0]. With browser extension
| this can save lot of time of readers. Heck I would pay for
| such a service!
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| [0]: https://www.ankshilp.com/stop_beating_around_the_bush/
| donclark wrote:
| I agree as well. This may have a 2nd life as a browser
| extension to use on articles on the web.
| sologuardsman2 wrote:
| +1 to the browser extension idea
| rdhyee wrote:
| Very interesting. I'd love a way to download a highlighted
| version of the PDF that I fed to Tuchu.
|
| I uploaded a PDF version of a Wikipedia article to see what was
| selected, and at a quick glance, it's not obvious to me that
| the most important parts of the article have been highlighted.
| On the other hand, it's not obvious that trivial parts have
| been selected either -- leaving me intrigued to look further.
| aquajet wrote:
| I made a similar site to Tuchu a while ago that attaches the
| highlights to the pdf: https://anishthite.github.io/ailight/.
| It's a bit slow though, I've been trying to get it to run
| faster.
| sologuardsman2 wrote:
| Like the idea! Tested on a couple of random research papers with
| mixed but decent results. Really look forward to leveraging this
| sort of tool as it improves.
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