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OCR Recipe Creator

OCR Recipe Creator. Presented by: Michael Woods Anselm Tamasang Chris Barill Darren Ringer. Introduction. The goal of this project is to create a software application that is accessible to everyone. Recipe creation with available ingredients OCR used in tandem

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OCR Recipe Creator

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  1. OCR Recipe Creator Presented by: Michael Woods Anselm Tamasang Chris Barill Darren Ringer

  2. Introduction • The goal of this project is to create a software application that is accessible to everyone. • Recipe creation with available ingredients • OCR used in tandem • Android will be the platform, as we will be using Java

  3. Features

  4. Features • Personal Food Inventory Management -make shopping lists? -collaboration with grocery stores? * Allows organization of lists by aisle * Place order for pick up at some stores * More accurate receipt information from DB -notify whencertain ingredients get low

  5. Features • Exploring possible recipes -Use the internet to obtain recipes matching current inventory -Keep recipes locally or in a cloud? -Specific dietary constraints/guidelines? • Meal planning -Set up recipes for multiple days at a time -Specify how many meals per day? -Specify the sizes/focuses of meals?

  6. Optical Character Recognition • OCR – is basically the ability to scan receipts (or any type of document) and have the words automatically recognized by the phone to be used in searching for recipes. • We have two options of how to pursue OCR: -Open source Java OCR implementation * Requires “training” to specific fonts as part of development -Third party OCR app * Add-in functionality only *Emphasize need for redundancy

  7. Challenges & Uncertainties • Creating an app on the Android platform • OCR errors • Abbreviation/Receipt code discrepancies -learn from user? -learn from the store’s database(?) • Finding Recipes -limited use of google search API? -other avenues? -central web architecture? • Using the app to work with the camera

  8. Conclusion • This project has the potential for overwhelming complexity, so we must constrain ourselves within the assigned project deadlines. • At several stages compromises are possible, but higher levels of functionality are also desirable. -Keep these goals in mind while developing architecture! -A few major design decisions must be settled prior to significant modeling efforts * OCR integration methods * Major avenues of recipe aggregation * Cross-platform: Extension to Iphone support?

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