Scanner Demo app

Scanner is an app that demonstrates the event handling capabilities of the Realm Mobile Platform. Combining the deep machine learning capabilities of IBM's Bluemix technology, it is able to take any photograph, and return a textual analysis of the contents in that photograph.

Run The Demo

Dependencies

• Realm Mobile Platform Professional Edition
• CocoaPods (iOS Only)
• Node.js

Steps To Run

For a fully in-depth tutorial on running the Scanner app along with the Realm Object Server, please see the Scanner tutorial on the Realm website.

1. Setting up the Mobile App

iOS

1. Navigate to the Scanner directory in Terminal and enter pod install to install Realm into the Scanner app.
2. Open the Scanner.xcworkspace file in Xcode.

Android

1. In the command line, go to the Android directory and run ./gradlew installDebug

2. Setting up the Realm Mobile Platform

1. Download the Professional Edition of the Realm Mobile Platform from the Realm website.
2. Start the Mobile Platform by running the start-object-server.command. Take note of the admin access token that is displayed.
3. If your web browser doesn't open automatically, open it, and navigate to 'http://localhost:9080'.
4. Register a user account with the username scanner@realm.io and the password password.

3. Running the Scanner Global Listener

1. Open Server/index.js and replace the REALM_ACCESS_TOKEN value with the access token you previously noted.
2. Navigate to the Server directory in Terminal, and run npm install to unpackage the Global Listener.
3. Run node . to start the Global Listener. The Mobile Platform Terminal window should print an authorized connection.

4. Running the Scanner app

1. Build and run the Scanner app from Xcode / Android Studio on the Mac that is currently running the Mobile Platform and the Global Listener processes.
2. Tap the camera icon to take a photo of some text.
3. The app will then start uploading the image, and will return the results when it is complete.