A comprehensive, client-server Records Management System designed to streamline document handling, student records management, and automated data extraction.

🏗 Architecture Overview

This project is divided into two primary components:

1. Frontend (Flutter Windows Application)

A modern, performant desktop application tailored for Windows, built using Flutter.

Key Technologies: Flutter, Riverpod (State Management), Dio (Networking), Syncfusion PDF Viewer.
Core Modules:
- Dashboard: Overview of recent activities and user history.
- Document Management: Upload, preview, and manage student records and documents.
- OCR Integration: Automatically extract data from scanned documents directly into the system.
- User & Student Management: Interface to manage student profiles, teacher records, and administrative settings.
- Reports Generation: Support for standard educational Excel templates (e.g., School Form 10).

2. Backend (Node.js REST API)

A robust and lightweight local server providing data persistence and powerful OCR processing capabilities.

Key Technologies: Node.js, Express.js, SQLite (better-sqlite3), JWT (Authentication), Multer (File Uploads).
Core Features:
- Authentication: Secure login and session management using bcrypt and jsonwebtoken.
- Local Database: Utilizes a fast, local SQLite database (tis_rms.db) for portability and simple deployment.
- OCR & PDF Engine: Integrates locally bundled Tesseract OCR and Ghostscript to securely process and extract text from images and PDFs completely offline.
- File Handling: Secure temporary storage and parsing pipeline for incoming files.

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

Node.js (v18 or higher recommended)
Flutter SDK (stable channel)
Visual Studio with C++ workload (for compiling the Windows Flutter app)

Backend Setup

Navigate to the backend directory:
```
cd backend
```
Install dependencies:
```
npm install
```
Copy .example.env to .env and configure your environment variables.
Start the server:
```
npm start
```
(For development, you can use npm run dev if nodemon is configured)

Frontend Setup

Navigate to the frontend directory:
```
cd frontend
```
Fetch dependencies:
```
flutter pub get
```
Run the Windows application:
```
flutter run -d windows
```
(To build the release executable, run flutter build windows)

📦 Included Dependencies & Tooling

Tesseract & Ghostscript binaries: The backend repository includes bundled Windows binaries for Tesseract OCR and Ghostscript to guarantee that document processing works out-of-the-box without requiring complex system path configurations.
Inno Setup: Includes an installer script (TIS_Frontend.iss) for easily packaging and distributing the compiled Flutter application.