Computer Vision, the plot "twist"

Integration for Twist and Microsoft Computer Vision API to transcribe and translate text (handwrited or printed text) from images inside a twist thread and keeping them indexed by the search engine.

Inspiration

When we knowed about twist we thought that it could be a good integration to allow the users to transcribe handrwited text to plain text and use the features tha twist provides like search, also we implemented the translation because here at the HackUPC we met a lot of people from arround the world.

What it does

It allows the user to transcribe text from an image, from a telephone or a camera, handrwited or printed and poste it in a Twist thread.

How I built it

We used Python with the flask framework, Heroku to host the server, sublime and git to edit the code and Twist to implement our integration.

Challenges I ran into

Learning 3 new APIs, Https requests, transform images, servers going down... and the lack of sleep.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Be able to overcome challanges and eventually develop an useful tool.

What I learned

A lot of Https protocol, JSON, server management, and flask.

What's next for Computer Vision, the plot "twist"

To implement the OAuth part of the project to be fully independent.

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