Campus Lost & Found

A centralized web application designed to reduce turnaround time for retrieving lost items on campus using automated text-matching.

Outcomes & Metrics

• Objective: Streamline the report-to-claim pipeline for campus items.
• Core Mechanism: Category and description similarity matching (Full-Text Search).
• Target: Sub-24-hour resolution for matched items.

Tech Stack

• UI: React (Vite)
• API: Java Spring Boot
• Data: MySQL

Quick Start

1. Database Setup

Ensure MySQL is running. Create the database:

CREATE DATABASE lost_and_found;