/smart-document-scanner

This is a document scanner web application along with the feature of optical character recognition aka. image to text conversion, built using Flask.

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Smart Document Scanner

This is a document scanner web application along with the feature of optical character recognition aka. image to text conversion, built using Flask.

1. Installation

i. Locally

  1. Clone this repo

  2. Create an .env file in a project root directory and add the following information

     APP_NAME="smart-document-scanner"
 SECRET_KEY="<random>"
 DEBUG=True
 SSL_DISABLE=True
 PORT=8000

  3. Install Tesseract OCR from here

  4. Install all the dependencies

    pip install -r "requirements.txt"

  5. Run

    python manage.py

  6. Check: http://localhost:5000

ii. Using Docker

  1. Clone the repo

  2. Install docker

  3. Create an .env file in a project root directory and add the following information

     APP_NAME="smart-document-scanner"
 SECRET_KEY="<random>"
 DEBUG=True
 SSL_DISABLE=True

  4. Run

    docker compose up

  5. Check: http://0.0.0.0:8080

Happy Coding !