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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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

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 !