User Interface Preview

• User interface of initial page.

• User interface while in use.

Server Installation

Required packages in Python (3.6+) environment

• networkx
• nltk
• numpy
• opencv-python
• pytesseract
• python-dotenv
• quart
• Quart-CORS
• scipy

Required third party software

• Tesseract OCR engine

Installation

• Python packages using pip

    python -m pip install networkx nltk numpy opencv-python pytesseract python-dotenv quart Quart-CORS scipy
  

• Installing Tesseract OCR engine

  • Download Link

  • Install to the default location (Recommended)

      C:\\Program Files\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe
    

  • Or change the value of TESSERACT in .env file accordingly.

Running the server

• Enter the follwing command in server directory:

    python server.py
  

• Configured to run on PORT 5000 by default.

• PORT can be changed via .env. Important: client .env must be edited accordingly.

• Visit http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/ to test the server.

• Visit http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/test/ocr and http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/test/summary to test both engines.

Client installation

• Use a simple web server to serve dist folder in client directory.

• For example execute python -m http.server inside dist to serve the files of the directory. And visit the given link (i.e.http://localhost:8000/) to access the web client.

Future enhancements

• Re-implement API in JavaScript and Express.js while keeping OCR/Summarization functionality in Python.