book_cover_reader

This is an internal tool for the Tu Libro a Ciegas project, for managing the stock of available books using the Google Cloud Platform and Books API.

• Manages book photos within Google Storage
• Extract text from book's cover photos using Google Vision
• Searches for the desired book using the Google Books API
• Logs the info into Bigquery

The following variables should be defined within something like a .env file:

• GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS: google cloud auth credentials
• bkt_todo: name of the google storage bucket with the unprocessed pictures
• bkt_done: name of the google storage bucket to move the successfully processed pictures to
• bkt_failed: name of the google storage bucket to move the failed pictures to
• dataset_name: name of the BigQuery dataset
• book_table: name of the table to log successfully processed books
• error_table: name of the table to log errors of failed pictures