Inspiration
It's part of European law to list a set of potential allergens from ingredients lists in bold, but this doesn't capture that some people's allergies aren't part of this bold ingredients. So we wondered if there could be a more personalised approach to allergy tracking.
What it does
There are two main features:
-> Take a list of ingredients from a food label and add to a virtual 'food diary' to correlate with any potential reactions -> Take the OCR'd characters from a label and match to a list of known food allergies
How we built it
We used a combination of the Microsoft Cognitive Services API and Android Studio.
Challenges we ran into
-> The intracries of the android SDK -> Poor backwards compatibility of Android
Accomplishments that we're proud of
-> Getting the camera working in an app -> Utilising the power of cloud computing -> Building an android app UI
What we learned
UIs are much harder to design than most other things
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