DentalManagementE/apps/PaymentOCRService/README.md

Medical Billing OCR API (FastAPI)

1) Prereqs

• Google Cloud Vision service-account JSON.
• GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS env var pointing to that JSON.
• Tesseract installed (for fallback OCR), and on PATH.

2) Install & run (local)

python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/absolute/path/to/service-account.json
uvicorn app.main:app --reload --port 8080