pdf_reader
Description
- Supports pdfs and images(ideally png)
- Uses pytessaract for ocr
- UI made by html,css and bootstrap (made by me)
Installation
- Clone the repo
- After that install the requirements
pip install - r requirements.txt
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Note Pytessaract has pytorch as its dependency which may vary based on system hardware.Be sure to check out torch version for your system
- Create your own postgress instance
- Follow standard django steps
- Add PDF_ROOT in settings.py (Location of media folder in your system)
- create a .env and add your secret keys
- Run with standard django steps
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver
Demo
Report
- My approach was to divide project in 3 parts
- Create user app for authentication
- Create pdfs app to handle file upload
- After upload do text extraction
- This was the most challenging part as I didn't know much about OCR.I searched online and after testing found the pytessarct module to be most appropriate
- I also had to learn about postgressql as I had worked with mysql before that
- I learnt about image recognition and OCR