A python Flask webapp to enable publishers to bundle ebooks with paper books, providing that they can upload a picture of a page. The uploaded picture is ocr-ed with tesseract-ocr and if it matches the target page inserted by the operator a download page is shown. The algorithm in matching.py tries to guess if source and destination are similar enough, since a byte-perfect match is pure utopia.
The app exposes a RESTful API.
GET /: returns a list of available publications.GET /book/<isbn>: presents the user with a form to upload a picture of the target page.POST /book/<isbn>: invoked by a form, takes the picture and spawns the ocr.GET /new:[basic-auth] presents the operator with a form to load data about a new publication.POST /new/<isbn>[basic-auth] creates the new publication.
- A working installation of tesseract-ocr;
- tesseract-ocr Italian language files (or change the
app.py:91andapp.py:181language setting with-l eng). - A mongodb instance running on the same server as py-BookBundler
- See
requirements.txtfor python dependencies.
The py-BookBundler project is © 2013 by Gabriele Alese (gabriele@alese.it) / http://www.alese.it
Released under a MIT license (see LICENSE.txt for details).
tesseract-ocr (not included) is available under Apache License 2.0 (see http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
Unsurprisingly,
$ python server.pywill execute the flask app behind a basic http server on port 80 (requires root privileges; otherwise, change server.py:7). The test server is in NO WAY meant to be put in production, and you should wrap app.py in a real wsgi wrapper like gunicorn, gevent or tornado. YMMV.