Clarifina 2024 ShellHacks Vanguard Winner
React, Node, Express, AWS (S3 and Lambda), TypeScript, Firebase, OpenAI API
Clarifina is a financial literacy web application designed with underrepresented communities in mind. Its core functionality enables users to upload financial documents, which are scanned to identify and explain complex financial terminology.
Key Features
- Leveraged AWS S3 to store PDFs and utilized AWS Lambda with Textract for coordinates to generate highlighted bounding boxes around key terms within documents.
- Integrated the OpenAI API within an Express backend to analyze extracted text, both assessing complexity and providing explanations.
- Included user profiles, authentication, and past document viewing through Firebase.