千手 Senju

🎋 Poetry in Motion 🎎

A web service for Haiku generation from text or from images and Haiku sharing

🌊 Overview

Senju (千手, "thousand hands") is a web service for haiku poetry generation and sharing, with image-to-haiku functionality.

✨ Features

• 🎏 AI-Powered Haiku Generation: Create beautiful three-line haiku poetry from text prompts
• 🖼️ Image-to-Haiku: Turn uploaded images into poetic haiku (experimental)
• 🔍 Browse Existing Haiku: Gallery view of previously generated poetry
• 💾 Persistent Storage: All generated haiku are stored for future retrieval
• 🖥️ Web Interface: Clean, efficient, minimalist user experience for human interaction

🔧 Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/senju1337/senju.git
cd senju

docker compose up

Docker desktop users on windows might need to change the line seperator from CRLF to LF of the file entrypoint.sh

📋 Dependencies

• Python
• Flask
• TinyDB
• PyTorch
• Transformers
• Pillow

See pyproject.toml for a complete list of dependencies.

🏯 Architecture

Senju is built around several key components:

• Flask Application: Core web framework providing routing and template rendering
• Haiku Generator: Interfaces with a machine learning model for poetry creation
• Image Recognition: Vision-language model for extracting descriptions from images
• Storage Manager: TinyDB-based persistence layer for haiku retrieval and storage

📝 Documentation

Senju is documented with sphinx. The documentation of the latest release is available on github-pages.

It can be generated like this (after installing the dependencies, see above):

cd docs
bash auto_docu.sh
# now open the documentation with a web browser of your choice
firefox ./build/html/

🧪 Testing

# Run tests
pytest

# Run tests with coverage
bash coverage.sh

📜 License

Distributed under the GPL-3 License. See LICENSE for more information.

🙏 Acknowledgements

• Ollama for providing the AI backend
• BLIP for the image captioning model
• PyTorch and Transformers for ML infrastructure
• Flask for the web framework
• TinyDB for the document database

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