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title: vizzy-server
emoji: 🐠
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colorTo: yellow
sdk: docker
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license: apache-2.0
short_description: Vizzy backend server
startup_duration_timeout: 2h
---

# Vizzy Backend - Making Visual Data Inclusive

<img src="vizzy_icon.png" alt="Vizzy Icon" width="150px">

This is the **backend server** that supports the [Vizzy Chrome extension](https://github.com/sebastianschramm/vizzy-chrome-extension.git).  
It handles graph recoloring, description generation, and audio narration requests.

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## 🛠 Installation

### 1. Clone the repository
```bash
git clone https://github.com/sebastianschramm/vizzy-backend.git
cd vizzy-backend
```

### 2. Install dependencies with Poetry
```bash
poetry install
```

### 3. Start the server
```bash
uvicorn server:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --workers 1 --log-level info
```
The server will run on [http://localhost:8000](http://localhost:8000)

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## 🐳 Docker

You can also run the backend using Docker (it's compatible for huggingface spaces deployment):

### Build the image
```bash
docker build -t vizzy-backend .
```

### Run the container
```bash
docker run -p 8000:7860 vizzy-backend
```

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## 📖 API Endpoints

- `POST /process` – process an image
- `POST /processupload` – process an image from an upload form
- `GET /health` – health check

*(Exact payloads and responses can be found in the `/docs` endpoint when the server is running.)*

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## 📜 License

Apache 2.0 License – see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.