Menu Reader: PDF to Image Service

Handles website crawling and converting pdf to image

Archive Note 📒

Due to Covid-19 pandemic this service was archived. Everybody works remotely so there is no need for this anymore.

API

Path	Function
/pdf2image	crawls the website, finds pdfs and saves it in database

Environment Variables

• MENU_BASE_URL, string, base page to crawl, example: https://www.my-menu-provider.de/

• MENU_OVERVIEW_URL_ENDING, string, specific page which contains links to the pdfs, example: speiseplan.html

• MENU_OVERVIEW_HREF_IDENTIFIER, string, the part which identify a link to a pdf <a href=Identifier>, example: assets/context/my-menu-provider/Speiseplan/

• MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING, string, connection string, example: mongodb+srv://user:password@cluster/dbname?retryWrites=true&w=majority

• MONGODB_DATABASE, string, database name, example: menudb

• MONGODB_COLLECTION, string, collection to write the base64 encoded images to, example: weeknum-and-image

• IMAGE_DPI, int, image quality in dpi, example: 160

• PDF_PAGE_NUMBER, int, page number of menu in pdfs, example: 1