My ToDo List for 2024 (daily updates)

I have too many goals I want to achieve in 2024. Here are the goals related to programming.

Opensource Image to Text OCR app 🔗

I opensourced img2txt app on Github. You can install the app from Google Play or from Github releases .

Features built in public 🔗

• works offline (No need to internet access).
• using all the available OCR technologies which are (1) ML Kit, (2) Google Vision, and (3) Tesseract OCR.
• works on all versions of Android; from Android 6 up to Android 14 (the latest version release)
• get image from gallery or from Camera for extracting text
• crop image before OCR processing
• share image into IMG2TXT app to extract text from it
• app UI supports Arabic & English
• app supports extracting Arabic & English languages.
• app supports extracting Arabic+English text from the same image.
• color-coded confidence/accuracy extracted text:
  • +80% -> white/black
  • 50-79% -> purple
  • -50% -> red
• let the user choose the text language before processing.
• show the newlines in the result text.
• ability to edit extracted text.
• ability to copy extracted text.
• batch processing (in bulk).
• PDF -> Images.foreach(ocr).
• support Hindi ( Indian language ).
• support Farsi ( Persian language ).
• save OCR history (aka : Detailed scanned images history).
• save extracted text as PDF.
• choose more than one image to OCR.
• pre-process image with thresholding for more clarity and better results/accuracy/extracted text.
• Ability to edit image before/after running OCR on it (manually).

OCR Text Scanner SaaS 🔗

Complete development of the re-written OCR app in Flutter. It is distributed as a SaaS.

• supported languages
  • English
  • Arabic
  • Farsi (Persian)
  • Hindi (Indian)
• supported file formats
  • JPG / JPEG
  • PNG
  • PDF (monopage, multipage)
  • WEBP
  • HEIC
  • AVIF
• supported sources
  • file upload
  • web url
• color coded accuracy
• tasks queue with priority (free & premium)
• dedicated page to show status of all functionalities/features accuracy/status

Digital Business Cards 🔗

I am continuously developing the platform for business cards. KartBusiness.com is a platform like YouTube but for business cards.

The platform consists of these instances:

• website : good enough
  • API v2 created.
• Android app : public beta
• iPhone app : early alpha

The specific goals about Kart Business are:

• reach first million visitors
  • On May 15th 2024, Kart Business got 22,000 visitors.
• reach first 100,000 users
  • On May 15th, 2024 , Kart Business has 201 users.
• reach first 500,000 cards
  • On May 15th, 2024, Kart Business has 1,339 cards.
• finish the implementation of the two exclusive features in the app
  • private commenting system (chat system)
  • homescreen app widget

Youtube videos 🔗

• explain programming in Go
• explain programming in Dart
• developing a website in Laravel
• developing Android app in Flutter
• explain programming in PHP
• explain HTML
• explain CSS
• explain programming in JavaScript
• explain frontend/DOM JavaScript
• design using Tailwind CSS
• explain Microsoft Word
• explain how to daily drive Ubuntu Linux
• creating a website using Go + HTMX + Tailwind CSS
• re-create an e-commerce website in Laravel (<LokaStores.com>)

My tech website 🔗

• make my website bilingual, in Arabic and in English. Instead of two separate websites for two languages, combine them in one website AbanoubHanna.com .
• The website tech stack is HUGO with a custom theme honoring my values and needs. This goal is accomplished.
• create the custom theme. I called it Kmt after my country name.
• Add a category for posts that explain Coptic/Egyptian language .

App: Books of Pope Shenouda III 🔗

• Store books data in SQLite database instead of plain text files. Read more about why?
• Add search functionality/feature.
• Add all books of Pope Shenouda III.

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