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You wouldn't even need to scan labels per se, you could just take a picture of the box and identify the food item that is the largest in the FOV. If your ingre
by bduerst 11y ago
You wouldn't even need to scan labels per se, you could just take a picture of the box and identify the food item that is the largest in the FOV.
If your ingredients data is getting stale, you could reward users with coupons for stale-data items, so some users will take pictures of the ingredients list (kind of a 'bounty' list). You could do this for new items too - e.g. a popup after the picture is taken saying you can get $0.50 off if you take a picture of the UPC and ingredients list. Do a visual diff on the ingredients photo to see if the they have changed, and if so, OCR it to the database.
- pyre 11y agoDo the manufacturers change the UPC code when they update the ingredient lists? I doubt it. It's still technically the same item (and probably the same internal SKU too).
- bduerst 11y agoNope, but for new items in the database or if packaging changes drastically, you would need the UPC to join the update with previous data.