A self hostable no-cost (1000 images a month) reverse image search + text analysis telegram bot. A convenient way to look up things on your mobile screen.

Take a SS, forward to telegram bot, amuse yourself.

Mainly made out of the need for finding context/origin of memes while scrolling on social media :p

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Reverse image search returns a guess label along with entities present (with accuracy %). Also returns links for pages containing matching image

Text analysis is done on both - text present on images and text sent by msg. Also returns entities and a sentiment analysis score per every block of text. Also contains google calender event link for any dates present and google map search link for any addresses

List of dominant colors are also returned along with an image containing those colors.

Dockerfile included.

1. Telegram bot token - http://core.telegram.org/bots#3-how-do-i-create-a-bot
2. Google Cloud Service Account json key - https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-managing-service-account-keys . The following APIS need to be enabled on that service account
   1. Cloud Vision API
   2. Cloud Natural Language API

These API's have a free tier of 1000 searches a month - https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing

1. Clone repo
2. Rename 'secrets/config.js.template' to 'secrets/config.js' and put in your bot token.
3. 'gcpKey.json' should also be placed in secrets folder.
4. Start by either:
   1. npm start
   2. docker build --tag pixb . && sudo docker run --name pixb -d pixb