Hi 👋 I am Abanoub

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As Newton said : "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants". So if you consider my projects helpful, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants — in the open source community.

My software motto is "Simple by default, powerful when needed".

User experience of my software should be seamless, intuitive and fun.

For my developer experience, I tend to use fewer dependencies, I prefer locality of functionality more than clean code in too many files, I tend to create simpler UI for my sanity.

I am in the top GitHub users by total contributions, & by public contributions in Egypt according to gayanvoice/top-github-users and committers.top.

Software I Created

Digital Business Card

• a virtual wallet of digital business cards
  • Laravel
  • Tailwind CSS
  • API for mobile apps (Laravel) -> (Go)
  • Android App (Kotlin + Jetpack Compose) -> (Flutter) -> (Kotlin + Jetpack Compose)
  • iOS App (Flutter) -> (SwiftUI)
• Install the app on your mobile from Google Play.

Kmt : Hugo Theme

• Kmt is a Hugo theme. It is named after the ancient name of Egypt (my home country).
• Kmt is open source

Loka Stores

• Loka ecommerce website
• tech stack : Laravel 10 + Blade + Tailwind CSS

OCR Text Scanner

• a toolset to identify and extract text from images efficiently.
• supported languages in the app UI (user interface): English (default), Arabic.
• supported languages to OCR : English (default), Arabic, Hindi (Indian language), Farsi (Persian language), Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish.
• app features :
  • works offline (without internet connection)
  • Ability to edit extracted text in the app
  • uses three color coded accuracy ( white/black +90% accuracy & purple 80-90% & red -80%)
  • save OCR history (aka : Detailed scanned images history)
  • choose more than one image to OCR
  • batch processing OCR on many images at once (concurrently) (bulk OCR)
  • save extracted text as PDF
  • save extracted text as plain text file .txt
  • Automatic cropping and recognition function as a default behavior (auto)
  • Ability to edit image before/after running OCR on it (manual)
• tech stack : Flutter, Tesseract.
• install the app from : Google Play

IMG2TXT OCR

• After 7+ years in production, I opensourced the project.
• Tech Stack: Kotlin • Tesseract lib.
• Image to Text OCR Text Scanner App • a tool to identify and extract text from images efficiently.
• Supported languages: Arabic • English.
• features and advantages:
  • works without internet (offline)
  • identifies English and Arabic languages at the same time on the same image
  • uses three color coded accuracy: white/black +90% accuracy • purple 80-90% • red 50-80% • 0-50% discarded
  • OCR processing speed depends on your smartphone capabilities
  • use ML Kit or Google Vision if available, else use Tesseract OCR
  • let the app user choose the text language {Arabic, English, Arabic+English}
  • edit the extracted text
  • copy the recognized text
• Install The App:
  • IMG2TXT OCR English/Arabic - Google Play (latest release)
  • IMG2TXT OCR Latin-based Languages - Google Play
    • No longer maintained. Use img2txt OCR app and choose 'English' and it will work on all Latin scripted languages.
  • Persian OCR - Google Play
    • No longer maintained. I will add Persian/Farsi language to img2txt app soon.
  • Hindi OCR - Google Play
    • No longer maintained. I will add Indian/Hindi language to img2txt app soon.
  • Huawei AppGallery
    • Old version. Just download the latest version of img2txt OCR app from GitHub if your smartphone does not support Google Play.

TimeGrid

PoC | Prototype (current state) -> MVP -> Production (ready to be used)

Read TimeGrid roadmap for more detailed information.

Features and functionalities:

• point of sale (POS)
• customer relations management (CRM)
• time managements
• daily tasks and money records, show year, show month, show week, show day.
• docs/notes/brainstorming
• timers (such as pomodoro)

Supported Platforms:

• Android phones
• Android Tablets
• iPhone (iOS)
• iPad (OS)
• Windows
• macOS
• Linux
  • snapcraft
  • flatpak
  • appimage

Pope Shenouda books

• Android app to read the books written by Pope Shenouda III. Application features and advantages: You can use touch gestures to turn/flip the pages of the book (Touch Gestures) • go to the last page you read in the last reading session • very little storage/space usage (~5MB).
• The application contains these books - so far -: The book of the launch of the soul • The Book of Life of Repentance and Purity • The Book of Calm • The Book of Spiritual Wars • A book of life experiences • The Book of the Creed • The Spirituality of Fasting book • The book Why the Resurrection? • Benefit word book • The Book of Ayoub Al-Siddiq, and why was his experience? • The Book of the Pascha Praise: You have the power and the glory • The Book of Priesthood • The Divinity of Christ • The Book of the Law of Monogamy in Christianity and Our Most Important Principles in Personal Status • The Book of Spirits between Religion and Spiritual Scientists • The Book of Returning to God • The Happy Spiritual Family Book.
• Tech Stack : Java, SQLite (read about the change from plain text files >> to >> sqlite db here)
• install the app from Google play (Pope Shenouda books)

Abanoub Hanna | Bilingual Tech Blog

• my bilingual tech blog in English & Egyptian Arabic. I post about Go language, Flutter framework, Laravel framework, .. and many others things. If you are interested, visit the blog here.

Agpeya - الأجبية

• An Arabic book of prayers for Coptic Orthodox Church.
• open source on GitHub.
• app size is around 1.3MB
• supports all Android versions from Android 5.1 up to the latest Android 14
• Tech Stack : Java, SQLite.
• Install Agpeya app from Google Play (uptodate)
  • or AppGallery (old version).

cleanText

• an open source tool to normalize text (convert special chars to normal chars such as àáâ into aaa)

gobrew

• opensource CLI app written in Go to show count of all programs written in X language or Y build system in Homebrew Core formulae.

i

• i is an abstraction over all package managers. The i project is open source (OSS), written in Go language.

docseng (a.k.a docse)

Local search engine for offline docs. docseng is short for (doc)umentation (se)arch (eng)ine.

OCR SaaS

• supported languages
  • English
  • Arabic
  • Farsi (Persian)
  • Hindi (Indian)
• supported file formats
  • JPG / JPEG
  • PNG
  • PDF (monopage, multipage)
  • WEBP
  • HEIC
  • AVIF
• supported sources
  • file upload
  • web url
• color coded accuracy
• tasks queue with priority
• dedicated page to show status of all functionalities/features accuracy/status

Software of choice | Tech Stack of choice

• OS : Ubuntu Linux, and Mac OS X
• Web browser : Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari
• to create a custom website/web app : Laravel + PostgreSQL db + Tailwind CSS
• to create large-scale web app : Go + HTMX + Tailwind CSS + Go Templ + PostgreSQL db
• to create backend API : Go std, or Laravel
• to create an Android app : Kotlin + Jetpack Compose + SQLite db (as it is local)
• to create an iOS app : Swift + SwiftUI
• to create a blog : Hugo, or WordPress, or my new thing (work-in-progress alternative)
• source code editors & IDEs :
  • Android Studio
  • vim: .vimrc : my simple config
  • neovim (a.k.a nvim): init.lua : my simple config
  • visual studio code (a.k.a vscode)
• developed Hugo theme
• [history] created Android apps in Java. for example, Agpeya Android app.
• [history] created a web app in native PHP (Plain PHP + HTML + CSS + JS)
• [history] developed a WordPress Theme