The problem Meet documentor solves

many times while listening to class or attending any discussion
we come across situations where you feel it would have been awesome if the slides shown in the session were converted into notes.

our project solves this problem.
we have made an extension that gives users the ability to document the meet and get the document in the form of a pdf

use cases

• especially for students attending classes online, this has great importance, they can now easily get the pdf of the entire meet which will be helpful for them in the future for revision.
• unlike other extensions that are available in the market that turn the recorded video into pdf , our solution makes pdf simultaneously as the meet is going on

Challenges we ran into

capture.visible.tab

capture.visible.tab is used to capture the screenshot of the present tab
but to run it we need active tabs and <all_urls> permission

solution

found some references where on how to add permissions to manifest.json file
Reference:

1. https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabs#method-captureVisibleTab
2. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=339703#c8
3. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25964869/chrome-screenshot-works-only-when-extension-is-clicked-first

popup.js and chrome. runtime.onclick() can't run at the same time

popup.js was important for the UI part of the extension
chrome,runtime,onclick was required to run capture.visible.tab with all the permissions, without that capture.visible.tab does not run without the tabs permission , which was only possible if it was enclosed by chrome.runtime.onclick

solution

chrome.runtime.onclick was replaced by other function , which runs capture.visible.tab

Could not make the pdf download through the extension

couldn't understand the reason , but downloading the recorded pdf was not possible

solution

made another website that retrieves the PDF . now after recording use has to go to the website and download the PDF