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You can see the all routes/features in the `openapi.yaml` file.
We'd recommend to use a visuallizer for it, such as [Swagger](https://editor.swagger.io/).
## Our Mission
The Alt-Text project is developed for the [Free Ebook Foundation](https://ebookfoundation.org/) as a Senior Design Project at [Stevens Institute of Technology](https://www.stevens.edu/).
As Ebooks become a more prominant way to consume written materials, it only becomes more important for them to be accessible to all people. Alternative text (aka alt-text) in Ebooks are used as a way for people to understand images in Ebooks if they are unable to use images as intended (e.g. a visual impaired person using a screen reader to read an Ebook).
While this feature exists, it is still not fully utilized and many Ebooks lack alt-text in some, or even all their images. To illustrate this, the [Gutenberg Project](https://gutenberg.org/), the creator of the Ebook and now a distributor of Public Domain Ebooks, have over 70,000 Ebooks in their collection and of those, there are about 470,000 images without alt-text (not including images with insufficient alt-text).
The Alt-Text project's goal is to use the power of various AI technologies, such as machine vision and large language models, to craft a solution capable of assisting in the creation of alt-text for Ebooks, closing the accessibility gap and improving collections, such as the [Gutenberg Project](https://gutenberg.org/).
### Contact Information
The emails and relevant information of those involved in the Alt-Text project can be found below.
#### The Deveolpers
- Jack Byrne
- jbyrne4@stevens.edu
- David Cruz
- da.cruz@aol.com
- [David's Website](https://xxmistacruzxx.github.io/)
- [David's Github](https://github.com/xxmistacruzxx)
- [David's LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidalexandercruz/)
- Jared Donnelly
- jdonnel3@stevens.edu
- Ethan Kleschinsky
- ekleschi@stevens.edu
- Tyler Lane
- tlane@stevens.edu
- Carson Lee
- clee27@stevens.edu
#### The Client
- Eric Hellman
- eric@hellman.net
#### Advisor
- Aaron Klappholz
- aklappho@stevens.edu
## APIs, Tools, & Libraries Used
Alt-Text Backend is developed using an assortment of tools...
### Development Tools
Alt-Text Backend is developed using...
- [Django](https://www.djangoproject.com/)
- [Django Rest Framework](https://www.django-rest-framework.org/)
- [python-dotenv](https://pypi.org/project/python-dotenv/)