Ransom Note Generator

Application written in python to make a note look like it is cut from a newspaper.

Demo:

Stack:

• Pillow for image creation and text arrangement
• Flask for serving it as a web application
• Materializecss for web app front end

Features Available

• Randomized
  • Background color
  • Font size(Between 22 and 32)
  • Alphabet rotation
  • Font styles(selection between Comic, Comic Bold, FreeSans, Times New Roman, Trebuchet Bold, Vera MoBI and Verdana Italic, Can be extended to more fonts)

Features ToDo

• Add a download image button(can be downloaded with right click menu as of now)
• Extensible font styles
• Play with alphabet case
• Word wrapping(Current line break is based on the space available on page not based on the word being processed)
• Take user inputs to randomize above features.
• (May be) Non standard shaped for alphabet background
• (May be) Live loading of image(Currently reloads after you submit)
• (May be) randomize font color which is currently fixed to black.

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How to run this locally

Requirements: Python should be installed in your local machine

Steps to run:

• Clone this git repository to your local file system.
• Open terminal inside the project folder.
• run command pip install requirements.txt
• After the requirements are installed run python server.py
• The application can be accessed via any web browser in your system at http://127.0.0.1:5000/

Better explaination at my Blog

Disclaimer:

This project was undertaken to improve my understanding of python and it should not be misused in anyway.