This repo contains code to deploy Facebook's Nougat model as a Modal function. In addition, there is a Telegram bot that takes an image sent to the chat and passes it to the deployed model for OCR. The results are returned in the chat.

1. Create a Telegram bot using the @BotFather
2. Create a .env file based on .env.example and add the necessary token and ids. Telegram ids can be found out by sending a message to @getidsbot.
3. Run or inspect the following script to deploy model in Modal and start Telegram bot.

./deploy.sh

Send photos of text on which to run the Nougat OCR to your Telegram bot.

Parts of the Telegram bot code were taken from the excellent chatgpt-telegram-bot.