Imatex

"Optical Character Recognition". It is a technology that allows the conversion of different types of documents, such as scanned documents, images or documents captured by a camera, into editable text.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Tech Stack
• Installation
• Usage
• Deployment
• Notes

Features

• Extract Image From Documents
• Extract Text From Images
• Download Youtube Video
• Download Tiktok Video

Tech Stack

• .NET 8+
• Tesseract 5+
• Visual Studio 2022+

Installation

To get started with the project, follow these steps:

Restore all packages:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/jmatoso/Imatex.git
   cd Imatex

2. Restore dependencies:

   dotnet restore

3. Set up environment variables: Change the appsettings.json file Imatex.Web and add the following variables:

   "GoogleTagId": "${GoogleTagId}",
   "TikTokOptions": {
       "TikTokDownloadApi": "${TikTokApi}",
       ...
   }

Usage

To start the development server, set Imatex.Web as startup project or run:

dotnet run

Deployment

The site is hosted on Render and the database on Aiven. Follow these steps for deployment:

1. Set up your Render account and create a new web service.
2. Link your GitHub repository to Render.
3. Add the required environment variables in Render's dashboard.
4. Deploy the application directly from the Render dashboard.

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Notes

Render free instances might not be enough to run the app properly, but you can still try. Good Luck! :)