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README.md

🤖 AI Chat Bot with Google Gemini API

Welcome to the AI Chat Bot - Google Gemini project!
This Python program uses the Google Gemini API to extract text from images, its a terminal-based application with a short conversational user interface.

🚀 Key Features

  • Conversational User Interface: Engages the user with prompts for their name and an image URL.
  • Dynamic Image Handling: Automatically detects the image type (e.g., PNG, JPEG) from the URL, making it flexible for different image formats.
  • Robust URL Fetching: Includes error checking to ensure the provided URL is valid and the image can be downloaded successfully.
  • AI-Powered Text Extraction: Leverages the Google Gemini API to accurately perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on the image.
  • Personalized Output: Appends the user's name to the extracted text for a custom touch.

🗝️ Requires a Google AI Studio API Key

To use this project, you must have a valid Google AI Studio API Key.
This key is required to authenticate requests to the Gemini API.
Store your API key securely in a .env file as described below.

🔑 How to Create a Google AI Studio API Key

  1. Go to Google AI Studio API Keys.
  2. Sign in with your Google account if prompted.
  3. Click the "Create API Key" button.
  4. Copy the generated API key.
  5. In your project folder, create a file named .env (if it doesn't exist).
  6. Add the following line to your .env file (replace with your actual key): 
    GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-google-api-key-here
    🙏IMPORTANT: Never share your API key publicly or commit it to version control.

🛠️ How to Run

  1. Clone the repository

    git clone https://github.com/your-username/Python-Programs.git
cd Python-Programs/ai-chat-bot-google-gemini

  2. Set up your environment variables

    • Create a .env file in this folder with: 
       GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-google-api-key-here  # Replace with your actual API key

  3. Install dependencies

    pip install -r requirements.txt

  4. Run the program in your terminal

    python main.py

📂 Folder Structure

ai-chat-bot-google-gemini/
│
├── main.py           # Main Python script
├── requirements.txt  # Python dependencies
├── .env              # Environment variables (not tracked by git)
└── README.md         # This documentation

📚 References

🙏 Acknowledgements

This project was created for educational purposes as a part of integrating Google Gemini's API with Python for the Computer Information and Decision Management Business Intelligence and Decision Support Systems course at West Texas A&M University, under the guidance of Dr. Cheng (Carl) Zhang.

Special thanks to the open-source community and the authors of the libraries used!

📝 License

This project is for educational and demonstration purposes only.