Awsseract

The aws-tesseract project is part of the final assignment for IN4392 Cloud computing course. The purpose is to get hands-on experience with a popular cloud provider like Amazon EC2 and leverage the concepts discussed in the lectures. The aws-tesseract is a simple webservice for extracting text from images.

Project Strucutre

• awsseract-frontend: Play! Framework and MasterNode
• awsseract-core: Master and Worker Implementation; includes two runnable daemons: Master Node(without using play!) and Worker Node
• awsseract-shared: Message Protocal files shared by the core and frontend
• awssercat-ec2interface: Amazon EC2 Library Wrapper for manually mointoring and launching EC2 instances

Prerequisutes

• Tesseract OCR Engine
• SBT tool for building the project

Group members

• Joseph Hejderup
• Wing Lung Ngai