CARD READER 🔃

SUMMARY

A small java application that reads contact information from a text file. It extracts a name, phone number & e-mail address from business card data, and writes it to a file.

This application doesn't have a GUI. You run it from a command prompt.

Input:

Data is read in from:

• ../CardReader/InputFiles/BusinessCardInput.txt

As long as data is read in from BusinessCardInput.txt, the user can specify their own path to that file. But the file must be named BusinessCardInput.txt.

REQUIREMENTS

• Java 14 or higher (https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jdk14-archive-downloads.html)

• Apache Maven 3.6.2 (https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi)

• Stanford Core NLP Libraries, version 4.4.0 - English (Automatically downloaded by project)

TO START

• Open a command prompt in Linux or Windows
• Change directories to the location of CardReader
• Compile the application
• Unit test everything (all unit tests in all classes must pass)
• Execute the application

Run all steps in this order:

COMPILE:

mvn clean compile

UNIT TEST:

mvn clean test

EXECUTE:

WITHOUT any arguments:

mvn exec:java

Default argument, when none are given:

../CardReader/InputFiles/BusinessCardInput.txt

WITH input path as argument:

mvn exec:java -Dexec.args=" ../Your/path/to/BusinessCardInput.txt "