Inspiration
With an overabundance of ingredients in hair products such as shampoo and conditioner, it often becomes difficult for the consumer to assess the safety of the product. It can be arduous to determine what ingredients are present, which ones are harmful, the extent to which that is, and the general safety of the product.
What it does
SC-DID takes an image of an ingredients list on the nutrition facts label (food or products like shampoo and conditioner) and processes the text of the ingredients list. Using the ingredients, SC-DID scours Google for the ingredients and determines the overall rhetoric toward the ingredients. Using these factors, SC-DID classifies the ingredients as harmful or not harmful.
How we built it
We used the Google Cloud Platform (which is used with Google Translate) to retrieve the text from the image.
What's next for SC-DID (Shampoo/Conditioner Dangerous Ingredient Detector)
The way SC-DID reports how harmful ingredients are is through a manual scoring system. In the future, we would like to change this manually-entered database into a program assessing which ingredients are dangerous through online searches. That way, the ingredient score report would be more informed.
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