diff --git a/candidates_to_json.py b/candidates_to_json.py
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+from utils import config
+import extract_candidates
+import re
+import json
+import os
+from dateparser.search import search_dates
+import generate_tesseract_results
+
+candidates_folder=str(config.CANDIDATE_DIR)+'/'
+images_folder=str(config.IMAGE_DIR)+'/'
+
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    print("main")
+    for image in os.listdir(images_folder):
+        print(image)
+        path=images_folder+image
+        ocr_data=generate_tesseract_results.get_tesseract_results(path)
+        candidates=extract_candidates.get_candidates(ocr_data)
+        with open(candidates_folder+image.replace('.jpg','.json'),'w') as f:
+            json.dump(candidates,f)
+