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Hi, just a simple idea that is probably not so simple to implement:
Use the camera to scan the date of the product via OCR and to make a photo of it to use as a thumbnail.
Make naming optional.
So lazy people, like me, can just use the app via camera:
Make a photo of the date label. App recognize & translates date via OCR.
Make a photo for a thumbnail to recognize the product.
Next product.
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This is a great idea. I was trying to get something similar working a few years back (probably more like 5 years actually) . It was hit-and-miss with the OCR technology of the time.
I've noticed a some things have changed since my last attempts:
OCR has gotten WAY better and WAY more available
The frequency of dot-matrix characters in expiry date labels seems to be decreasing (anecdotally). This is good because I found these especially challenging for OCR.
Text processing for handling the wide range of date formats is probably way better now too.
I'd be really keen to help implement this feature. I'm a Android app n00b but can probably just about figure out implementing the OCR backend part if you tell me where I should put the code.
Hi, just a simple idea that is probably not so simple to implement:
Use the camera to scan the date of the product via OCR and to make a photo of it to use as a thumbnail.
Make naming optional.
So lazy people, like me, can just use the app via camera:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: