1. Project Title:

     Note:API doc is included in the root dir with name API.md!

2. Team Members:

   • Wanjing Huang
   • Siyang Shen
   • Pingfan Xu

3. Description of the web application:

We see nutrition labels everywhere everyday, but from reading the label not all people really understand the nutrition facts: what they do to your body, what is the suggested daily amount for your body. Thus here we want to provide a tool that helps people comprehend the nutrition label easily and more precisely.

4. Key features:

   • Recognizing nutrition label from input image
   • Searching certain nutrition facts by name
   • Displaying detail information for each nutrition upon user clicks the name on the input nutrition label
   • Auto-generating a downloadable report for input nutrition label
   • Login system, storing history report for each user

5. Description of the key features that will be completed by the Beta version:

   • Recognizing nutrition fact label from input image
   • Auto-generating report for input nutrition label
   • Displaying detail information for each nutrition upon user clicks the name on the input nutrition
   • Searching certain nutrition fact information by name

6. Description of additional features that will be complete by the Final version:

   • Downloadable pdf report for input nutrition label
   • Fuzzy search
   • History reports for logged-in user
   • Pop notification for upload progress
   • Login system
   • Fully responsive mobile website

7. Description of the technology that you used:

   • Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
   • MongoDB
   • Express
   • Node Sass
   • JS Cookie
   • Fuzzy Search
   • Google Cloud Platform
   • Google Cloud Storage
   • Google Cloud Vision
   • pdfmake
   • Fusejs
   • Axios
   • Docker, Kubernetes, Istio
   • Cors
   • Superagent
   • Service Worker
   • Shell Code
   • Bootstrap Fileinput
   • React
   • React Native
   • React Notification System
   • React Read Pdf
   • React Scripts
   • React production build
   • React Dom
   • React Signup Login Component
   • React Autobind
   • MDBReact
   • Proxy
   • Github

8. Description of the top 5 technical challenges:

   • Image recognition and locating recognized item
   • React production deployment
   • React routing and components communications
   • Docker, Kubernetes, Istio
   • Auto-generating a downloadable PDF report.