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sdrp / digitize-mtc

an OMR tool that automates data extraction from scanned medical records
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Executable that runs on Windows #15

Closed sdrp closed 4 years ago

sdrp commented 4 years ago

The laptop we bought for MTC is an old HP model that runs Windows 10. Sud has this machine with him in Providence, and ultimately this is the one that we want to have running live at the clinic. Anyone can take this task, but it probably makes the most sense if Sud does this given that he can test it out on the actual machine before heading over.

sdrp commented 4 years ago

After some investigation, seems like we can use PyFladesk to package the server into an executable that can run on windows. See links below:

https://github.com/smoqadam/PyFladesk https://elc.github.io/posts/executable-flask-pyinstaller/

More generally the approach relies on PyInstaller: https://pypi.org/project/PyInstaller/

sdrp commented 4 years ago

Creating a self-contained executable ended up being incredibly difficult given the complexity of connecting to the external camera and having to save / read from many different image and JSON files while communicating to the server. Plan is to move forward with maintaining a Windows version of the codebase that hopefully doesn't need to diverge from the Mac/Linux version by more than a few hardware compatibility lines.