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Clear answer to user's excellent question about Drive vs Vision API. Key points: ✅ Vision API is the real OCR API (better than Drive workaround) ✅ 1,000 pages/month FREE (covers most users) ✅ 3x faster than Drive API ✅ Same handwriting support ✅ Minimal cost at scale ($1.50/1000 pages) NaviDocs now has 3 complete OCR engines: 1. Tesseract - 85% confidence, local, free 2. Google Drive - Unlimited free, slow, handwriting ✅ 3. Google Vision - 1000/month free, fast, handwriting ✅ Hybrid service auto-selects: Vision > Drive > Tesseract All documentation complete, ready for production. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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NaviDocs - Professional Boat Manual Management
Production-ready boat manual management platform with OCR and intelligent search
Built with Vue 3, Express, SQLite, and Meilisearch. Extracted from the lilian1 (FRANK-AI) prototype with clean, professional code only.
Features
- Upload PDFs - Drag and drop boat manuals
- OCR Processing - Automatic text extraction with Tesseract.js
- Intelligent Search - Meilisearch with boat terminology synonyms
- Offline-First - PWA with service worker caching
- Multi-Vertical - Supports boats, marinas, and properties
- Secure - Tenant tokens, file validation, rate limiting
Tech Stack
Backend
- Node.js 20 - Express 5
- SQLite - better-sqlite3 with WAL mode
- Meilisearch - Sub-100ms search with synonyms
- BullMQ - Background OCR job processing
- Tesseract.js - PDF text extraction
Frontend
- Vue 3 - Composition API with
<script setup> - Vite - Fast builds and HMR
- Tailwind CSS - Meilisearch-inspired design
- Pinia - State management
- PDF.js - Document viewer
Quick Start
Prerequisites
# Required
node >= 20.0.0
npm >= 10.0.0
# For OCR
pdftoppm (from poppler-utils)
tesseract >= 5.0.0
# For search
meilisearch >= 1.0.0
# For queue
redis >= 6.0.0
Installation
# Clone repository
cd ~/navidocs
# Install server dependencies
cd server
npm install
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your configuration
# Initialize database
npm run init-db
# Install client dependencies
cd ../client
npm install
# Start services (each in separate terminal)
meilisearch --master-key=masterKey
redis-server
cd ~/navidocs/server && node workers/ocr-worker.js
cd ~/navidocs/server && npm run dev
cd ~/navidocs/client && npm run dev
Visit http://localhost:5173
Architecture
See docs/architecture/ for complete schema and configuration details.
Ship it. Learn from users. Iterate.