Aggie Grocer

Inspiration

We constantly find ourselves in need of something to eat but never quite have the right ingredients, so we proposed the idea of a recipe generator. However, with this came another glaring issue: the process of updating inventory. To avoid such a tedious task, we added a receipt scanner that will automatically update a user's inventory with every trip to the grocery store.

What it does

Aggie Grocer takes a user's inventory and suggests recipes based on the current ingredients. The way it goes about acquiring a user's inventory is through receipt scanning and minimal manual input.

How we built it

Aggie Grocer was built using HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap, and Tesseract.

Challenges we ran into

One of the main challenges was finding a way to integrate an OCR function. After iterating through many different OCR libraries across a number of programming languages, it was found that using an OCR for Javascript was best for integration.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to have built a great project despite the numerous hair-pulling bugs and hardships we encountered. We are also both proud and honored to have been selected for first in the 2022 TAMU Hackathon.

What we learned

Through Aggie Grocer and the TAMU Hackathon experience, we learned the importance of teamwork and how to work on an extremely tight schedule. Every step of the process was communicated with all group members thus enabling us to work much more efficiently.