Users can take a picture of their recipts from a store and our app will scan the text and upload a virtual cart. Cart will automatically input persiable items from receipt and show experiation dates.
Inspiration: Food can go bad so easily and with the stress of our daily lives, we forget all the time about food going bad in our fridge. So decided to make an app to track the expiration of our perisable foods from the receipts we get from the stores after purchase. .
What it does: After the user takes a picture of the receipt in app, the app will convert the receipt into text that will be inputed into the app where it will show the user the persiable item and when it will expire. It will show how many days are left.
How we built it: Using Xcode, we implemented built in API's to scan receipts and convert them into Strings so that we can inpit them into the virtual receipt which our app holds.
Challenges we ran into: Getting the UI to interact with our string output from the camera scan after scanning the receipt. Xcode was challenging in terms of its UI and getting it to interact with our text and outputs from our camera scan.
Accomplishments that we're proud of: Implementing a camera scan that converts real objects text to Strings such as scanning a receipt and converting that text to Strings that are usable in our app.
What we learned: Xcode, GUI, Git, Github, APIs, and data structures.
What's next for Fridgify: Incoporate more key terms in our dictionaries so that our app can recongonize more key terms from receipts.
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