Read a screenshot of nutrition information to create custom food automatically using OCR
Hi there!
I’ve really been aching for a way to improve the process of importing my recipes or home cooked foods for a few years now. Recently, I started using Whisk, and they calculate nutrition information for each recipe using the USDA database. I realize this is probably a rough guess, but it’s good enough for me. What I’m wondering is - if an API connection is too challenging to implement - could you allow the OCR reader to be available anytime you create a custom food, not just after you scan a barcode that’s missing in the database, and make it so you can choose a photo from your photo library? This would be so much easier for me and gets the information I really need, which is calorie and nutrient details, into Cronometer. I could totally live without recipe import if I could use OCR like this.
Here’s an example of what a screenshot from Whisk looks like with detailed nutrition information - any chance this might be a little more doable for the team to implement than a true integration? I know the team is small but I keep giving up on this app because I cook almost everything I eat and it’s really overwhelming trying to manually enter every ingredient to get it into Cronometer.
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That's a cool idea! I'll share it with the team.
We do have some improvements to adding recipes to Cronometer hitting the beta-version soon. Your days of entering in all your ingredients manually are numbered!
Karen Stark
cronometer.com
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Ahh that is excellent news - thank you! If you’re looking for beta testers I’m happy to participate - I didn’t realize you had a beta version! In the meantime thank you for sharing with the team.
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If you'd like to get access to the beta version, please send an email to beta@cronometer.com to get on the list.
If you'd like access to the mobile app, we need a bit more information from you. Check that out by following the links below:
Android: https://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1739/
iOS: https://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1809/Thanks for your offer to help!
Karen Stark
cronometer.com
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Did this feature ever get built? I have run into a similar situation where some of the restaurants I get food from (such as Evergreen Salads) provide nutrition information but not a barcode
