🧾 Invoice Extractor Flask App 🧾

A simple Flask application to extract information from invoice PDFs. It can currently identify the total amount and the description of the items.

✨ Features ✨

• PDF Parsing: Reads and extracts text from PDF invoice files.
• Total Amount Extraction: Identifies and extracts the total amount from the invoice.
• Description Extraction: Captures the description of the items listed in the invoice.
• Simple Flask API: Provides an easy-to-use API endpoint to upload and process invoices.

🚀 Getting Started 🚀

Prerequisites

• Python 3.x
• pip (Python package installer)

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/vectorc0de/nlp_api
   cd nlp_api

2. Install the required dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the Application

1. Set the Flask environment (if needed):

   export FLASK_APP=your_app_file.py  # Replace your_app_file.py
   # export FLASK_ENV=development      # Optional: for development mode

2. Run the Flask development server:

   flask run

   Or, if you have app.py as your main file:

   python app.py

3. The application will be accessible at http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (or the port specified by Flask).

🛠️ Usage 🛠️

You can interact with the application by sending a POST request to the /extract_info endpoint with a PDF file.

Example using curl:

curl -X POST -F "pdf_file=@/path/to/your/invoice.pdf" [http://127.0.0.1:5000/extract_info](http://127.0.0.1:5000/extract_info)