aydrian / stitchcraft-readtome

An application that uses AWS Rekognition & Polly to detext text in a picture and speak it.

Read to Me

An application created using MongoDB Stitch and React.js. It uses AWS Rekognition to detect text in an uploaded image and speaks it using AWS Polly. The Live-coding video for this app can be found on the StitchCraft YouTube.

web-ui

React.js application created using Create React App.

stitch-app

Exported (as template) Stitch app.

Scripts

The following scripts will assist in the initial setup of your Stitch Application.

Requirements:

• Install the stitch-cli
• Generate an API Key
• Create a .env file like the following

export STITCH_API_KEY=<API_KEY>
export STITCH_USERNAME=<CLOUD_USERNAME>
export STITCH_APPID=<APPID>

• Create a secrets.json file in the stitch-app directory like the following

{
  "services": {
    "AWS": {
      "secretAccessKey": "<secret-access-key>",
      "accessKeyId": "<access-id>"
    }
  }
}

NOTE: Do not commit this file.

deploy.sh

Deploy current code using ./deploy.sh in the root of the project

> ./deploy.sh

export.sh

Export the project code template using ./export.sh in the root of the project.

> ./export.sh

Note: This exports the application configuration without any service ID values, including the App ID.