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OCR scanner

ctwice_1
Posts: 1 Member
Hi,
I would like to suggest a feature:
I believe an *OCR scanner for nutritional labels on packages (w/o barcodes), recipes from cookbooks, screenshots of ingredients from online recipes would be a highly useful and convenient feature for the app. It would allow users to quickly capture and log nutritional information without manually inputting the details.
This would be useful not only for creating food entries, but also very handy for creating “meals” which can be laborious to input as individual food items.
This would be an awesome feature - please consider.
Thanks!
I would like to suggest a feature:
I believe an *OCR scanner for nutritional labels on packages (w/o barcodes), recipes from cookbooks, screenshots of ingredients from online recipes would be a highly useful and convenient feature for the app. It would allow users to quickly capture and log nutritional information without manually inputting the details.
This would be useful not only for creating food entries, but also very handy for creating “meals” which can be laborious to input as individual food items.
This would be an awesome feature - please consider.
Thanks!
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