This Flask app scans a folder of images and makes the text inside them fully searchable, using open-source Tesseract OCR. This could be helpful for someone who has a massive folder of screenshots or scanned documents and wants to find what they need without uploading everything to a cloud service. This app runs 100% locally…
Category: Utilities
Web apps and scripts built to solve a problem or speed up a task, including an AI-curated news reader and a stock performance comparison tool.
Data Science CV
I published my professional resume at cv.blakerayvid.com, turning my old Word file into an HTML/CSS/JS document. It lists my skills, projects, work history, and provides a PDF download. I built it to give a fast, clear view of what I do. Thanks to this change, I can now maintain my resume with VSCode. 🔗 View…
Compare Stock Returns
This page lets you enter multiple stock tickers (eg. AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL) and even custom portfolio expressions (eg. 0.5*NVDA, 0.25*AMZN, 0.25*KO) and compare their performance against a benchmark (eg. SPY) over any time period. It’s built with Python and Flask on the backend. Data comes from Yahoo Finance via the yfinance library, pandas crunches the…
Based News Reader
This script fetches the latest Google News RSS headlines for a user-supplied list of topics and regularly updates an HTML page hosted on Railway. Gemini AI prioritizes the headlines based on the user’s preferences. Designed to be scheduled with cron on any Unix-based system. 🗞️ news.blakerayvid.com How It Works View on GitHub
RouteCat
This is a clustering traveling salesman solver for delivery, alleycats and more. Give the app a list of addresses and it will return the optimal groups for up to 4 drivers and provide the order to visit the stops to minimize travel time, and a map with the ideal route. 🔗 routecat.blakerayvid.com View on…
Covid Report NYC
View the latest Covid-19 case, hospitalization, and death trends for New York City in a simple web interface. 🔗 covidnyc.blakerayvid.com View on GitHub