Inspiration
As an active person in the gym community, I've heard peoples struggles with having to manually track their macro intakes. Using pen and paper or even a notes app is disorganized, unproductive, and has room for error.
What it does
This app allows you to upload images and utilizes Tesseract OCR software to recognize and parse text so a user can keep track of their nutritional daily intake.
How we built it
I built it in python using the python wrapper for Tesseract called Pytesseract as well as OpenCV and PIL.
Challenges we ran into
Nutrition labels are all a little different, so I had to try a lot of different filters and settings with CV2.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
It works!
What we learned
I got acquainted with new python libraries.
What's next for nutrition-tracker
This is definitely just the beginning point. I will need to develop the UI and I hope to add a calendar feature to show the macros for all the previously recorded days.
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