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Neither parent nor grandparent references UPC. Grandparent references the list of ingredients.
by gkop 11y ago
Neither parent nor grandparent references UPC. Grandparent references the list of ingredients.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoSorry about that! I didn't assume someone would suggest having a mobile device OCR an ingredients label, versus looking up a UPC code tied to an ingredients list and groking for your allergies. One is easy, the other is hard.
- cbhl 11y agoOCR isn't that hard, just expensive. You do a first pass with an algorithm, and then use Mechanical Turk to correct for errors.
- khedoros 11y ago> One is easy, the other is hard. There are APIs and libraries for OCR, so that might not be so bad (even on a mobile device). A low-end phone is faster than the first PCs I did OCR on anyhow, and about 20 years more research has gone into algorithms.