Backend service for PhantomClick built with FastAPI and Tesseract OCR for extracting text from SMS screenshots.

git clone
cd server/python-server

python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

This project uses pytesseract to extract text from SMS screenshots.

pytesseract will not work unless Tesseract is installed on your system.

Download installer:
https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

Downloaded this:

tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-5.5.0.20241111.exe (64 bit)

Install Tesseract and add the following to your PATH:

C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR

Verify installation:

tesseract --version

Create a .env file in the root directory.

GEMINI_API_KEY=

Add any other required environment variables used by the project.

From the backend folder:

uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8001 --reload

After starting the server:

Application
http://localhost:8001