4.1. Technologies Used

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Framework/Library

Front-end

SemanticUI for CSS/JS framework (it provides a lot of off-the-shelf components that we can use, reducing development time greatly)
jQuery
Chart.js for graphing library

Back-end

PHP for server-side scripting (easy to learn for everyone, two members are familiar with it and one is taking CS2102 where PHP will be used)
Laravel for PHP web framework (built with MVC framework, ORM support)

Algorithm

Tesseract for OCR (powerful OCR engine developed by Google, a lot of support)
OpenCV for logo recognition

Database

MySQL because familiar with it, and it's part of the PHP stack we're using

Development tools

Github for code review
Linting tools for static analysis
Travis CI for continuous integration
Heroku for continuous deployment

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