paraphrase.ia is a Chrome extension that let's you make paraphrases of a highlighted text in your browser.

Many languages are supported!

It's an app that harnesses the power of pre-trained transformers and their natural language processing capabilities to create a few paraphrases from any given text you have highlighted in your browser.

Why only highlighted texts? Well, we thought it would be a better UX than just throwing an input box :)

1. Highlight any text inside your browser.
2. Click the extension icon.
3. Click paraphrase now and wait a few seconds.

• Showcase:

You'll receive a list with a few paraphrases that you may use to enhance your writting experience. Clicking any result paraphrase will copy it's text so you can paste it anywhere you want.

1. Download any of the extension_XX folders based on your desired UI language. (Either portuguese or english at the moment).
2. Go to your chrome extensions settings and then activate developer mode.
3. Then click load unpack and select the whole extension_XX folder in your downloads.

Now you'll be able to access paraphrase.ia by clicking it's icon on the top right corner of your browser.

Note: This process assumes our server is still running and you haven't hosted your own.

Our application uses a transformers language model and a translation api.

• Paraphrasing model.
  • Parrot
• Translation API.
  • Google Cloud Translation

At the time of writting this readme, the model is being hosted by a flask web server running in a Google Cloud VM with 4 cores and 16 GiB RAM. It's service costs around $170 monthly not counting for the translation costs, we're currently affording it, but it won't be up for long. You may host it for yourself!

1. Create a folder for our web server.
2. Download the API folder of this repository.
3. Make sure to have a Google Cloud Translate API key.
4. Place the Translate API key JSON in the API folder.
5. Install required libraries and Parrot.

pip install flask flask-cors pandas google-cloud-translate git+https://github.com/PrithivirajDamodaran/Parrot_Paraphraser.git

6. Run main.py and your server should be running.

Finally, inside the popup.js file, replace the api_url variable with your Flask server ip address and now all paraphrase.ia requests should be headed there.

• Selection feature doesn't work within applications where it's text is written inside a canvas tag.
• Bigger phrases aren't being paraphrased correctly.
• Sometimes paraphrases come duplicated.
• Depending of which text you chose, it may not be able to paraphrase.

Gabriel Araújo

Davi Ribeiro

Lucas Dantas