Reference

This repository is a reference to my blog post:
http://blog.mathocr.com/2017/06/25/store-base64-images-with-Django-REST-framework.html

Installation

1. Install Python 3.5:
   Windows x86-64 web-based installer or Select & download other installer.
   
   While installing Python please make sure that option 'Add Python 3.5 to PATH' is checked.

2. Install virtualenv package:
   pip install virtualenv

3. Create new directory:
   mkdir digits_operators_recognizer

4. Enter newly created directory:
   cd digits_operators_recognizer

5. Clone this repository into current directory:
   git clone https://github.com/ThomasLech/digits_operators_recognizer .

6. Create isolated working copy of Python:
   virtualenv env

7. Acivate virtual enviroment:
   source env/Scripts/activate (on Windows: env\Scripts\activate)

8. Download missing packages (those that cannot be installed via pip):
   scipy‑0.19.0‑cp35‑cp35m‑win_amd64.whl: SciPy Download Page,
   scikit_image-0.13.0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl: Scikit-image Download Page,
   numpy-1.12.1+mkl-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl: NumPy Download Page.

9. Upgrade pip (Python Package Manager) and install three downloaded packages with the following shell command:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

pip install "scikit_image-0.13.0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl"
pip install "scipy-0.19.1-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl"
pip install "numpy-1.13.1+mkl-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl"

10. Install specified dependencies with pip (Python Package Manager) with the following shell command:

pip install -U -r requirements.txt

Usage

1. Navigate to folder containing manage.py.
2. Create a dabase: python manage.py migrate
3. Run server: python manage.py runserver

You are good to go! :)