Hi 👋 I am Abanoub

YouTube • 𝕏 (twitter) • linkedin • Telegram • Facebook • CV • Résumé • Portfolio

As Newton said : "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants". So if you consider my projects helpful, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants — in the open source community.

My software motto is "Simple by default, powerful when needed".

User experience of my software should be seamless, intuitive and fun.

For my developer experience, I tend to use fewer dependencies, I prefer locality of functionality more than clean code in too many files, I tend to create simpler UI for my sanity.

I am in the top GitHub users by total contributions, & by public contributions in Egypt according to gayanvoice/top-github-users and committers.top.

Software I Created

Digital Business Card

a virtual wallet of digital business cards
- Laravel
- Tailwind CSS
- API for mobile apps
- Android App (Flutter)(~~Kotlin + Jetpack Compose~~ )
- iOS App (SwiftUI)
Install the app on your mobile from Google Play.

Kmt : Hugo Theme

Kmt is a Hugo theme. It is named after the ancient name of Egypt (my home country).
Kmt is open source

Loka Stores

Loka ecommerce website
tech stack : Laravel 10 + Blade + Tailwind CSS

OCR Text Scanner

a toolset to identify and extract text from images efficiently.
supported languages in the app UI (user interface): English (default), Arabic.
supported languages to OCR : English (default), Arabic, Hindi (Indian language), Farsi (Persian language), Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish.
app features :
- works offline (without internet connection)
- Ability to edit extracted text in the app
- uses three color coded accuracy ( white/black +90% accuracy & purple 80-90% & red -80%)
- save OCR history (aka : Detailed scanned images history)
- choose more than one image to OCR
- batch processing OCR on many images at once (concurrently) (bulk OCR)
- save extracted text as PDF
- save extracted text as plain text file .txt
- Automatic cropping and recognition function as a default behavior (auto)
- Ability to edit image before/after running OCR on it (manual)
tech stack : Flutter, Tesseract.
install the app from : Google Play

IMG2TXT OCR

After 7+ years in production, I opensourced the project.
Tech Stack: Kotlin • Tesseract lib.
Image to Text OCR Text Scanner App • a tool to identify and extract text from images efficiently.
Supported languages: Arabic • English.
features and advantages:
- works without internet (offline)
- identifies English and Arabic languages at the same time on the same image
- uses three color coded accuracy: white/black +90% accuracy • purple 80-90% • red 50-80% • 0-50% discarded
- OCR processing speed depends on your smartphone capabilities
- use ML Kit or Google Vision if available, else use Tesseract OCR
- let the app user choose the text language {Arabic, English, Arabic+English}
- edit the extracted text
- copy the recognized text
Install The App:
- IMG2TXT OCR English/Arabic - Google Play (latest release)
- IMG2TXT OCR Latin-based Languages - Google Play
  - No longer maintained. Use img2txt OCR app and choose 'English' and it will work on all Latin scripted languages.
- Persian OCR - Google Play
  - No longer maintained. I will add Persian/Farsi language to img2txt app soon.
- Hindi OCR - Google Play
  - No longer maintained. I will add Indian/Hindi language to img2txt app soon.
- Huawei AppGallery
  - Old version. Just download the latest version of img2txt OCR app from GitHub if your smartphone does not support Google Play.

TimeGrid

PoC | Prototype (current state) -> MVP -> Production (ready to be used)

Read TimeGrid roadmap for more detailed information.

Features and functionalities:

point of sale (POS)
customer relations management (CRM)
time managements
daily tasks and money records, show year, show month, show week, show day.
docs/notes/brainstorming
timers (such as pomodoro)

Supported Platforms:

Android phones
Android Tablets
iPhone (iOS)
iPad (OS)
Windows
macOS
Linux
- snapcraft
- flatpak
- appimage

Value In Brief

This tech blog is discontinued, and all content is moved into my bilingual tech blog here.
Tech Stack:
- Hugo the popular static site generator (SSG)
- Content as Markdown .md files
- Kmt Hugo theme

Pope Shenouda books

Android app to read the books written by Pope Shenouda III. Application features and advantages: You can use touch gestures to turn/flip the pages of the book (Touch Gestures) • go to the last page you read in the last reading session • very little storage/space usage (~5MB).
The application contains these books - so far -: The book of the launch of the soul • The Book of Life of Repentance and Purity • The Book of Calm • The Book of Spiritual Wars • A book of life experiences • The Book of the Creed • The Spirituality of Fasting book • The book Why the Resurrection? • Benefit word book • The Book of Ayoub Al-Siddiq, and why was his experience? • The Book of the Pascha Praise: You have the power and the glory • The Book of Priesthood • The Divinity of Christ • The Book of the Law of Monogamy in Christianity and Our Most Important Principles in Personal Status • The Book of Spirits between Religion and Spiritual Scientists • The Book of Returning to God • The Happy Spiritual Family Book.
Tech Stack : Java, SQLite (read about the change from plain text files >> to >> sqlite db here)
install the app from Google play (Pope Shenouda books)

Abanoub Hanna | Bilingual Tech Blog

my bilingual tech blog in English & Egyptian Arabic. I post about Go language, Flutter framework, Laravel framework, .. and many others things. If you are interested, visit the blog here.

Agpeya - الأجبية

An Arabic book of prayers for Coptic Orthodox Church.
open source on GitHub.
app size is around 1.3MB
supports all Android versions from Android 5.1 up to the latest Android 14
Tech Stack : Java, SQLite.
Install Agpeya app from Google Play (uptodate)
- or AppGallery (old version).

Bible - الكتاب المقدس

I discontinued the project. Use this bible app instead.

OCR

extract text from images and/or PDF files. It is open source, so you can contribute.
tech stack : Go language, Gio UI (rethinking about it ?!), Tesseract via gotesseract

Coptic OCR

tesseract-ocr do not include Coptic in their models, so I am trying to support it. It is open source & shared on GitHub.

speech to text (live transcribe)

I cancelled the project. use Live Transcribe from Google instead.

cleanText

an open source tool to normalize text (convert special chars to normal chars such as àáâ into aaa)

gobrew

opensource CLI app written in Go to show count of all programs written in X language or Y build system in Homebrew Core formulae.

i

i is an abstraction over all package managers. The i project is open source (OSS), written in Go language.

docseng (a.k.a docse)

Local search engine for offline docs. docseng is short for (doc)umentation (se)arch (eng)ine.

OCR SaaS

Software of choice | Tech Stack of choice

OS :
- Ubuntu Linux
- Mac OS X
Web browser :
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Apple Safari
to create a custom website/web app :
- Larave
- PostgreSQL
- Tailwind CSS
to create large-scale web app :
- Go
- HTMX
- Tailwind CSS
- Go Templ
- db (if it is data-storage type of project, I use PostgreSQL or MariaDB. Else, I use SQLite).
to create backend API :
- Go
- Laravel.
to create an Android app :
- if the app needs a native functionality/feature, I tend to use ( Kotlin + Jetpack Compose + SQLite ), else I tend to use Flutter.
to create an iOS app :
- Flutter
to create cross-platform app :
- Flutter
to create a blog :
- Hugo
- WordPress.
source code editors & IDEs :
- Android Studio
- vim: .vimrc : my simple config
- neovim (a.k.a nvim): init.lua : my simple config
- visual studio code (a.k.a vscode)
developed Hugo theme
[history] created Android apps in Java. for example, Agpeya Android app.
[history] created a web app in native PHP (Plain PHP + HTML + CSS + JS)
[history] developed a WordPress Theme

abanoubha Goto Github PK