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I am currently scraping for brand product and nutrition data. Having to build custom scrapers per brand is hell. I have a dream to use something closer to OCR

I am currently scraping for brand product and nutrition data. Having to build custom scrapers per brand is hell. I have a dream to use something closer to OCR against a rendered page, rather than parsing DOM. That way it would be less custom, and I could say, for instance, "find 'protein', the thing to the right of that is the protein grams". I, personally, don't know how to do this, but I'd be willing to pay for a more generic way to scrape nutrition data (email in profile :) )

carucez 12y ago
take a block of text, sentence, or paragraph. build 2 classifiers: #1 that classifies a sentence that contains the information you want, and #2 that classifies the actual data within that subset. NLP
imns 12y ago
There's companies out there that already have this info. Checkout http://kwikeesystems.com http://kwikeesystems.com .