Hack the South 2018 - Image Analyser

This is a small experiment project for Hack the South 2018 hackathon that provides a simple text detection from image feature by using Google Cloud Vision API.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you have to get a development env running

Node.JS is needed in order to run the project, the following instructions assumed you have Node.JS installed on your machine.

npm install

Before executing the project, you must set up the authentication for the Vision API Client library first, the instructions on Google will guide you through the process.

Then, place the JSON file for the API key you just got from Google to the root folder, and replace the file name in routes/index.js.

routes/index.js

const client = new vision.ImageAnnotatorClient({
  keyFilename: path.join(__dirname, '../<file name of your API key>'),
});

Once the API has been set up properly, you can then execute the project by using the command node app.js.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.