Fridge Finder

Saving food, one receipt at a time.

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Inspiration:

When you start shopping for yourself, it's a good idea to keep track of what you buy-- many times, people purchase food items they forget about, and it goes bad before they have a chance to use it. This app is a quick and easy way to keep track of what food is purchased-- by taking a picture of your receipt, you can create a list of your current groceries and approximate expiration dates. By providing an easy way to keep track of food before it goes bad, we enable people to get the most out of their groceries, while also helping them minimize their personal food waste.

What it does:

Fridge Finder is a mobile application that can make a list of items from a picture of a receipt that can be crossed off when eaten. The app also supports manual entries. Each entry has a name, date added, and date of expiration, and taking a picture of a receipt will automatically update the current list with the items on the receipt.

How we built it:

  • Front/Back end implementation: Android studio
  • Text Recognition: ML Lab from Google's FireLabs
  • Backend database implementation: SQLite

Challenges we ran into:

Some of the challenges that we faced included technical difficulties in implementing the camera into Android Studio. Getting the output from the image also proved a struggle, as we needed connect the UI to Firebase in the backend. Concerning User Interface, we ran into a lot of issues implementing methods to switch between activities.

Accomplishments that we're proud of:

  • Successful integration of camera and language processing from pictures
  • Successful transfer of parsed data from the image to list entries
  • implementation of a SQLite database for the backend

What we learned:

  • Android Studio
  • FireBase
  • Text image recognition
  • SQLite.

What's next for Fridge Finder:

  • entry editing
  • indicators for eaten vs thrown away
  • Implementation of a History Tab
  • Notifications that alert users of when their food is about to expire
  • Amount spent (finance tracking)
  • Improved Text Recognition

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