Image uploader, annotator and voice describer

What is it?

It's a demo web application written using kotlin language for JVM. Essentially it's a website allowing user to upload pictures to GCP Storage, automatically annotate content using GCP Vision and even read it using TTS GCP Text-to-Speech

It highlights use of kotlin for backend, Google Cloud Platform APIs and kotlin type-safe html builder

What technologies does it use?

• kotlin 1.3.41
• kotlinx.html 0.6.12
• http4k 3.163.0
• Google Cloud Client SDK 1.36.0

How to start this thing?

• Make sure you have java 8 installed
• Specify environment variables:
  • GOOGLE_STORE_BUCKET - name of the bucket for pictures
  • GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS - path to the json credentials file, as described in documentation
• run ./gradlew run in project's root
• open your browser at http://localhost:9999

About project

It's a demo project originally developed for demo for GDG Cloud London meetup by Ruslan Zaharov[ruX].

Blog: https://rux.vc

GitHub: ruXlab/kotlin-gcp-vision-tts-demo