testing out OCR viewer of OCR'd text

launch_viewer.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+P44 OCR Viewer — launcher
+Starts a local HTTP server at port 5044 and opens the viewer in the default browser.
+Run from any directory; the server root is always the project folder (this file's location).
+"""
+import http.server
+import webbrowser
+import threading
+import os
+import sys
+
+PORT = 5044
+ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+
+class QuietHandler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
+    """Serve files from ROOT, suppress request logs."""
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(*args, directory=ROOT, **kwargs)
+    def log_message(self, fmt, *args):
+        pass  # silence per-request noise
+
+def start_server():
+    server = http.server.HTTPServer(('localhost', PORT), QuietHandler)
+    server.serve_forever()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    # Start the server in a background daemon thread
+    t = threading.Thread(target=start_server, daemon=True)
+    t.start()
+
+    url = f'http://localhost:{PORT}/p44-ocr-viewer.html'
+    print(f"\n  ⚜  P44 OCR Viewer")
+    print(f"     Serving: {ROOT}")
+    print(f"     URL:     {url}\n")
+    webbrowser.open(url)
+
+    print("Press Enter (or Ctrl-C) to stop the server and exit.\n")
+    try:
+        input()
+    except KeyboardInterrupt:
+        pass
+    print("Server stopped.")
+    sys.exit(0)
+