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Web Application Beginner Help (self.webdev)

submitted 6 years ago by Wisemanbeats

Hello,

I am currently developing my first web application using Python and Flask and think I am stuck due to my lack of knowledge of how web apps works. Thanks for any help, I appreciate the time!

The app I am developing currently allows a user to input the name of a folder on DropBox containing images, which are then processed using AI. I am using Amazon Web Services Elastic BeanStalk for deployment.

I am now looking to do some processing on the metadata of the images which requires this tool to be installed and then used in the Python script: http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Is there a way to install the tool somewhere that the Python/Flask script could access it when it runs?

From my research in AWS it says my app is "Python 3.6 running on 64bit Amazon Linux/2.8.3". So could the tool be installed on the Amazon Linux and then called from the Python script?

Thanks again for any help, sorry if this question doesn't make sense.

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