shopbuddy-vision

OCR backend for parsing receipts and barcode

HOW TO RUN

• You need a Google cloud account
• Follow the steps here to enable Cloud Vision API
• If you have the gcloud suite of tools, you can login with gcloud login then just run the server it'll use your credential to authenticate
  • You'll get a warning using this approach, however it's quick to get started.
• The recommended way, is to create a service account(Go figure)
• When the service account private key downloads to your machine, point this environment variable to it
  • GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path-to-your-sa.json file
• You're all set!