online test paper sharing platform

objectives

• Allow sharing of past test papers in image (jpg, png) or text format (pdf, Docx, etc).
• To allow users to search test papers by the content.
• Index questions from image files using OCR technology
• Allow users to provide a solution to individual questions via text or pictures
• Allow users to upvote test papers and answers
• Sort test papers and answers based on the number of votes

installation

• clone or download the repository
• download and install teseract ocr engine
• to install all dependencies run

   pip install requirments.txt

install postgres dbms or change the databases attribute in the settings file to run with sqlite3

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
    }
}

to run the server run the following commands

cd optss
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

on browser go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/

if user wants to create a superuser account(admin) run the following command

python manage.py createsuperuser