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You can see the all routes/features in the `openapi.yaml` file.
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We'd recommend to use a visuallizer for it, such as [Swagger](https://editor.swagger.io/).
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## Our Mission
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The Alt-Text project is developed for the [Free Ebook Foundation](https://ebookfoundation.org/) as a Senior Design Project at [Stevens Institute of Technology](https://www.stevens.edu/).
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As Ebooks become a more prominant way to consume written materials, it only becomes more important for them to be accessible to all people. Alternative text (aka alt-text) in Ebooks are used as a way for people to understand images in Ebooks if they are unable to use images as intended (e.g. a visual impaired person using a screen reader to read an Ebook).
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While this feature exists, it is still not fully utilized and many Ebooks lack alt-text in some, or even all their images. To illustrate this, the [Gutenberg Project](https://gutenberg.org/), the creator of the Ebook and now a distributor of Public Domain Ebooks, have over 70,000 Ebooks in their collection and of those, there are about 470,000 images without alt-text (not including images with insufficient alt-text).
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The Alt-Text project's goal is to use the power of various AI technologies, such as machine vision and large language models, to craft a solution capable of assisting in the creation of alt-text for Ebooks, closing the accessibility gap and improving collections, such as the [Gutenberg Project](https://gutenberg.org/).
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### Contact Information
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The emails and relevant information of those involved in the Alt-Text project can be found below.
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#### The Deveolpers
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- Jack Byrne
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- jbyrne4@stevens.edu
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- David Cruz
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- da.cruz@aol.com
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- [David's Website](https://xxmistacruzxx.github.io/)
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- [David's Github](https://github.com/xxmistacruzxx)
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- [David's LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidalexandercruz/)
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- Jared Donnelly
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- jdonnel3@stevens.edu
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- Ethan Kleschinsky
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- ekleschi@stevens.edu
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- Tyler Lane
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- tlane@stevens.edu
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- Carson Lee
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- clee27@stevens.edu
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#### The Client
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- Eric Hellman
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- eric@hellman.net
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#### Advisor
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- Aaron Klappholz
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- aklappho@stevens.edu
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## APIs, Tools, & Libraries Used
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Alt-Text Backend is developed using an assortment of tools...
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### Development Tools
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Alt-Text Backend is developed using...
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- [Django](https://www.djangoproject.com/)
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- [Django Rest Framework](https://www.django-rest-framework.org/)
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- [python-dotenv](https://pypi.org/project/python-dotenv/)

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