This is an interface for extracting someone's contact information from a business card.

This solution has been developed for Linux.

To install this solution on your system, you will need Python 3 and PIP as well as virtualenv installed.

To install this solution in a virtual environment, run these commands:

virtualenv -p python3 .env

source .env/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

spacy download en_core_web_sm

Please be patient with the pip install command. It can take several minutes to complete.

This solution is a command-line program. You can provide it with a business card from a file or from the standard input.

Before running this solution, if you installed this solution in a virtual environment, then make sure you have activated that environment before running this script.

To provide a business card from a file, run

python BusinessCardDriver.py -f bizcard.txt

where "bizcard.txt" is the path to your file.

To provide a business card from the standard input, run

python BusinessCardDriver.py -i

You will need to press Ctrl-d to let the program know you are done entering your business card.

To run the tests for this program, activate your virtual environment (if you set one up earlier) and then run

python -m unittest BusinessCardTest.py

You should see five unit tests running and the word "OK" at the end.