Case Study

SmartNotes AI

SmartNotes AI turns handwritten notes into a searchable study assistant using OCR, embeddings, retrieval, and AI summaries.

SmartNotes AI interface preview

Problem

The challenge

Handwritten study material is hard to search, summarize, and reuse. Students need a grounded way to ask questions over their own notes.

Solution

What I built

I built a RAG assistant that ingests photographed handwritten notes, extracts text with OCR, indexes content with embeddings, and answers questions from retrieved context.

Architecture

How it works

  • OCR converts photographed notes into usable text for downstream processing.
  • Chunking, embeddings, and vector search keep answers grounded in the user's own notes.
  • Question answering, summarization, and study-material generation run from retrieved context.

Implementation

Project highlights

  • Built a RAG assistant that turns photographed handwritten notes into a searchable knowledge base.
  • Engineered chunking, indexing, and vector retrieval to keep responses grounded.
  • Enabled question answering, summarization, and study-material generation for handwritten content.