Digital career guidance system(DCGS)

The Digital Career Guidance System (DCGS) addresses the severe shortage of career counsellors in South Africa by providing scalable, data-driven guidance. The platform features five interconnected modules: an OCR Result Scanner that extracts marks from report cards using Gemini Vision, a Recommendation Engine matching students to university courses via semantic search, a Psychometric Career Assessment based on the Holland RIASEC model, a multilingual AI Counsellor for 24/7 support, and a comprehensive Admin Analytics Dashboard. Built on a "Zero-Budget" stack, it leverages the power of Groq, Neon PostgreSQL, and Pinecone to deliver high-performance tools at no monthly cost.