py-BookBundler, a draft ebook/paper bundling scheme

[gabalese]

{I feel it's about time to share back something to this forum, which really helped me in countless occasions.}

py-BookBundler is 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.

The full source code is available on github under the MIT license. Every form of feedback or contribution is appreciated and encouraged.