Image Finder User Study

Running the app locally on Windows

git clone git@github.com:schagsim/image_finder.git C:\path\to\project\folder

Install Python 3.9.4

• You can use Miniconda to manage Python versions
• You can also download multiple Python versions and use the specific python.exe for 3.9.4

Make sure your Python is a correct version

> python --version
Python 3.9.4

Using the Python 3.9.4 you installed, create virtual environment in image_finder project.

python -m venv C:\path\to\project\folder\venv

This will create a virtual environment for our project in the project folder.

Activate the virtulan environment

C:\path\to\project\folder\venv\Scripts\activate

Install requirements for the project

python -m pip install -r .\requirements.txt

Running the app in Docker container

Install docker on you local machine.

Go to web app folder C:\path\to\project\folder\image_finder_web

Build the docker image

docker build -t image_finder_web .

Run the docker image

docker run -d --name image_finder_web_container -p 5000:5000 image_finder_web

To stop the docker container, use following command

docker kill image_finder_web_container

Running the app without Docker container

Go to web app folder C:\path\to\project\folder\image_finder_web

python -m flask run

Both for Docker and no-Docker run, you can now go to http://localhost:5000/ (this address might get outdated eventually) and see the web.