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Meet documentor

turn your meet session into a pdf automatically

M

Meet documentor

turn your meet session into a pdf automatically

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

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