A project with the goal of converting an image of a bookshelf to a list of books.

We should be able to easily share our bookshelfs with others. I have gotten a lot out of Patrick Collison's bookshelf and other similar bookshelves. I want to be able to see and be inspired by the books in others' bookshelves!

For now, this project is composed of

1. An initial attempt with traditional computer vision.
2. Experimenting with some optical character recognition systems.
3. Book detection with PyTorch.
4. A command line interface with the full pipeline. An example script call is python test_script.py path/to/bookshelf.png. For now, the pipeline is slow (it, among other things, uses Open Library's API to identify books in a very slow way) and not all that accurate.