Book Spine Classifier

This application provides a flask RESTful API to detect and classify books in a bookshelf

Prerequisites

to install this on your own server

install requirements via pip

pip install -r requirements.txt

install Tesseract OCR engine via thier website or apt get the apps in the Aptfile and set teh respath to tesseract and the tessdata in your environment

Built with

• Python
• Pycharm - IDE
• OpenCV - computer vision framework
• TesseractOCR - text recognition engine
• Heroku - deployment enviroment

Download

You can download a flutter(android/IOS) application that interfaces with this API from the following repository Book Classifier App

Usage

You can

• use the application referenced above
• Post http request to the hosted API on heroku
  • post a single book spine on '/'

    example using curl: curl -v -F "file=@img_path.jpg" https://book-spine.herokuapp.com/

  • post a shelf book spine on '/shelf/'

    example using curl: curl -v -F "file=@img_path.jpg" https://book-spine.herokuapp.com/shelf/

Authors

• Ramez Noshy - Main Developer - rameziophobia
• Pierre Adel - Main Developer - PierreAdel

License

this project is licensed under the MIT license