Developers: Sonam Ghosh, Brian He, Halmon Lui
License: MIT License
For anyone who wants to scan their hand written work onto their computers or want a quick spell check, they can use this application. Microsoft Azure has Computer Vision APIs and Spell Check APIs which allow us to translate handwritten text to a string and also spell check the string. Google Drive API allows us to automatically push our text document onto your personal account. This is great for individuals or students who want to quickly convert their handwritten pieces of text whether it be a cooking recipe or a rough draft essay into a digital document to be viewed online for editing and flexibility.
To access the main (backend) scripts within this repository go to the src directory which contains the following files:
analyze-image.js - Uses the Microsoft Azure Computer Vision Optical Character Recognition API to identify text off properly formatted text such as signs or type faces (non-handwriting based) and proceeds to output the text formatted line by line into a text file that is put into a Google Docs document through the Google Cloud API.
drive.js - Uses Google Cloud to call the Google Drive API to save an output text file into a Google docs document which is saved under the EssayBoi directory on our local Google drive.
recognize-text.js - Uses the Microsoft Azure Computer Vision Text Recognition API to properly analyze handwritten text and proceeds to output the text formatted line by line into a text file that is put into a Google Docs document through the Google Cloud API
response200.json - Example JSON output when one runs the recognize-text.js script on a image that is taken by the phone camera.
Note for Spell Check functionality, the spell_check.js script is used to analyze extracted text from analyze-image.js or recognize-text.js, which calls upon Microsoft Azure's Bing Spell Check API.
Lastly, all the backend functionalty developed on NodeJS (Javascript) is used with the mobile app (app.js) that represents the frontend of our stack which was developed using the React Native framework for developing apps using ReactJS (Javascript)
The app may be downloaded from here (remember to install Expo first from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store in order to access the app):
https://expo.io/@nomlahlui/essay-boi
`Check out our devpost as well!:
https://devpost.com/software/essay-boi
