Read For You

Introduction

• Read For You is a web application developed within 24 hours in the hackathon HackDuke 2021 (23 Oct 2021 - 24 Oct 2021).
• Read For You aims to empower the visually impaired group by providing image description and text to speech services.
• This project is hosted on https://readforyou.tech/, using the services from the Google Cloud Platform and domain.com
• When a user uploads an image, words describing the image will be read out and displayed on screen. When a user uploads a document file (txt, docx, doc) the text will be read out and the contents will be displayed on screen.
• (Learn more about this project in devpost and in the presentation slides.)

Tech Stacks

• HTML, CSS ,JavaScript
• Express.js
• Google Cloud Vision API
• Google Cloud Platform
• Nginx

Setup for Project Development

1. Install npm modules

npm i

2. Setup the Google Cloud Vision services

   • Generate an API Key from the Google Cloud Platform
   • Create a JSON file named apiKey.json
   • Insert the API Key in apiKey.json

3. Set the environment variable for Google API

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="./apiKey.json"

4. Run index.js to host the website locally

node index.js

5. Visit http://localhost:8080/ in the browser