Designing and Implementing an AI-Augmented E-Commerce Platform for Specialty Handicrafts.

This deposit contains the Project report for an AI-augmented e-commerce platform designed for Syrian Damascene mother-of-pearl handicrafts, developed at the Arab International University (Faculty of Informatics and Communication Engineering, April 2026). The platform integrates a multi-store Laravel/MySQL backend with a FastAPI AI microservice and three role-aware React applications (customer, store-manager, admin), and exposes four high-level capabilities: (1) embedding-based visual search powered by DINOv2 features over a FAISS index; (2) a bilingual (Arabic/English) retrieval-augmented chatbot built on multilingual e5 retrieval over ChromaDB and Gemini-based generation; (3) generative scene composition via the Gemini Imagen API, exposed both as a customer-facing free-form editing surface and as a store-manager curated-theme marketing tool; and (4) a Stripe-integrated checkout flow exercised end-to-end against the platform's testing environment. The report documents the system's design, implementation, evaluation, and limitations. This work was conducted at Arab International University (AIU), Syria. The official website of the university is: https://www.aiu.edu.sy