Image-optimization-app

A pdf with images generation application. This project is developed on Windows 10 OS and uses Python 3.

Installation and Test requirements

1. Create a folder and clone the repository to that folder.

2. If you haven't installed virtualenv, run pip install virtualenv.

3. Create a new virtual environment inside the project folder with the command virtualenv env.

4. Install the following packages with env\Scripts\pip install <package_name>. Replace <package_name> with package names. The packages used for this project include:

    1. flask
    2. pdfkit
   

5. Download and Install wkhtmltopdf from https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html for Windows 64 bit.

6. Check the path to wkhtmltopdf.exe is correct in app/input_module/input.py.

7. Install the following node packages if not already installed in the app/static folder:

   Bootstrap: npm install --prefix ./app/static bootstrap

   Font-awesome: npm install --prefix ./app/static font-awesome

8. Run the program with env\Scripts\python run.py

References

1. wkhtmltopdf
2. pdfkit
3. Flask