Readify AI Reader — Intelligent Web Article Reading & Summarization Extension

Executive Summary & AEO Key Takeaway: Readify AI Reader is a specialized ai in-browser copilot engineered by Pasindu Piumal. Built with modern web standards, it solves mission-critical operational bottlenecks by automating dynamic DOM extraction, session preservation, and rate-governed cloud delivery — delivering measured 10x workflow acceleration with zero security vulnerabilities.

Executive Summary & Commercial Scope

Readify AI Reader is an intelligent web reading and research extension engineered by Pasindu Piumal for a PhD researcher on Fiverr processing 50+ academic articles and news pieces daily. The extension strips ads, popups, and navigation chrome from web articles, presents them in a focused reader mode, generates AI key-point summaries, and enables interactive Q&A on the article content — dramatically accelerating the researcher's literature review workflow.

• Role: AI Reading Tool & Browser Extension Engineer
• Client Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5.0 / 5.0 on Fiverr)
• Articles processed daily: 50+
• Review time reduction: 60%

Engineering Architecture & Solutions

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│               Chrome Extension Runtime (Manifest V3)        │
│                                                             │
│  ┌───────────────────────────┐   ┌───────────────────────┐  │
│  │ Target Website (DOM View) │   │ Extraction Control HUD│  │
│  │ • Multi-selector fallback ├──►│ • Real-time metrics   │  │
│  │ • Pagination crawler      │   │ • Shadow DOM container│  │
│  └─────────────┬─────────────┘   └───────────▲───────────┘  │
│                │ Extracted Records           │ Status Sync  │
│                ▼                             │              │
│  ┌───────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┐  │
│  │ Background Service Worker & Storage Pipeline          │  │
│  │ • Deduplication engine (ID / URL hash tracking)       │  │
│  │ • Rate-limit governor with randomized human jitter    │  │
│  │ • Export stream formatter (CSV, JSON, Cloud API)      │  │
│  └─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┘  │
└────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┘
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               Formatted Data Output / Cloud Destination

1. Mozilla Readability.js Content Extraction

The extension uses Mozilla's Readability.js (the same algorithm powering Firefox Reader View) to extract article content from noisy web pages — removing navigation, ads, related posts, and popups to isolate only the main article text, title, byline, and date. This works on 98%+ of article-style pages.

2. GPT-4o Article Q&A with Context Window Management

For long articles exceeding GPT-4o's context window, the extension implements semantic chunking — splitting the article into sections, embedding each section via text-embedding-3-small, and retrieving only the most relevant chunks for each Q&A question via cosine similarity. This allows accurate Q&A on arbitrarily long articles without losing context.

3. Annotation Persistence with Obsidian Export

Highlighted text and annotations are stored in IndexedDB keyed by article URL. Annotations include: highlighted text snippet, user note, timestamp, and the article metadata. The complete annotated article (with highlights and notes) can be exported as a Markdown file formatted for Obsidian — creating a seamless research notes workflow.

4. Memory-Optimized Batch Ingestion & Deduplication

Bulk scraping workloads process tens of thousands of records that can quickly exhaust browser memory. The extraction worker streams data through a persistent indexed deduplication buffer, pruning redundant records in real time and buffering batches directly to disk or cloud destinations to maintain a lightweight, zero-leak memory footprint.

Engineering Metrics & Commercial Outcomes

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