Alt Text Generator

Elevate your website's image accessibility, improve SEO, and enhance the overall user experience by effortlessly providing meaningful descriptions for your visuals. Alt Text Generator is an easy-to-use tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically generate SEO-friendly alt text for images.

❓ How it Works

It leverages Microsoft's Azure Computer Vision API to analyze and describe the content of an image, providing information about the image content and context.

🔧 Requirements

Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:

• Node.js >= 16.14.0

🚀 Installation from source

Follow these steps to get the project up and running on your own machine.

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/itsvijaysingh/alt-text-generator.git

2. Install project dependencie using:

   npm install / npm i

3. Set up your environment variables: To configure the project, create a .env file in the project root and add the following variables:

    - PORT: Port number for the server (Default: 5500).
    - AZURE_VISION_API_KEY: Your Azure Computer Vision API key.
    - AZURE_VISION_ENDPOINT: Your Azure Computer Vision API endpoint.
    - AZURE_VISION_MODEL_VERSION: (Optional) Azure model version (Default: 2023-02-01-preview).
    - AZURE_VISION_FEATURES: (Optional) Azure features to use (Default: caption).
    - AZURE_VISION_GENDER_NEUTRAL: (Optional) Enable gender-neutral captions  (Default: true).

4. Run the Project To start the project, use npm:

   node app.js

• The application will be available at http://localhost:5500 (if hosting locally).

💯 Usage

• Upload an image using the provided interface.
• Click the "Generate Alt Texts" button.
• The AI will analyze the image and provide an alt text description.

🗒️ License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL-3.0). See the LICENSE file for details.