Here’s a complete, polished, and developer-friendly README.md for your DevBoard OCR+ FastAPI project:

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# 🧠 DevBoard OCR+

A lightweight, production-ready FastAPI microservice that extracts **TODOs**, **PR references**, and **deadlines** from uploaded images or PDFs using **OCR** (`Tesseract`) and **regex-based NLP**.

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## 🚀 Features

- ✅ Upload image or PDF files via API
- 🧠 Extracts actionable dev tasks like:
  - `Fix login bug`
  - `Review PR #42`
  - `Deadline: 2025-07-22`
- ⚙️ Powered by: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
- 🔍 Clean and regex-based extraction logic
- 🦾 Built with FastAPI and async IO
- 💼 Great for portfolio/demo projects

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## 📸 Example

Upload a screenshot or scanned whiteboard that contains:

Fix broken navbar Review PR #101 Deploy by 22/07/2025

The API returns:

```json
{
  "text": "Fix broken navbar\nReview PR #101\nDeploy by 22/07/2025",
  "todos": ["Fix broken navbar", "Review PR #101", "Deploy by 22/07/2025"],
  "refs": ["PR #101"],
  "dates": ["22/07/2025"]
}

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🧑‍💻 Local Development

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/devboard-ocr.git
cd devboard-ocr

2. Create and activate virtual environment

python -m venv venv
source venv/Scripts/activate   # Windows
# OR
source venv/bin/activate       # Linux/macOS

3. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Install Tesseract OCR

• Windows: Download Installer
• macOS: brew install tesseract
• Ubuntu: sudo apt install tesseract-ocr

5. Configure .env

Create a .env file in the root:

TESSERACT_PATH=C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe

Update the path to match your system.

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🚦 Run the Server

uvicorn main:app --reload

Then open:
👉 http://localhost:8000/docs

Upload an image/PDF using the Swagger UI.

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📁 Project Structure

devboard-ocr/
├── app/
│   ├── routes/
│   │   └── ocr.py
│   └── services/
│       └── ocr_service.py
├── main.py
├── .env
├── .gitignore
├── requirements.txt
└── README.md

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🛠 Tech Stack

• FastAPI – blazing-fast Python web framework
• pytesseract – Python wrapper for Tesseract OCR
• Pillow – image handling
• dotenv – environment config
• re – built-in regex for text parsing

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🌐 Future Ideas

• PDF support with pdf2image
• SQLite task history
• Frontend dashboard with upload + history
• Background task queue for heavy processing

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📄 License

MIT — free to use, fork, and build on.

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Built by Ammar Bin Shakir — feel free to fork & showcase 🚀