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Genius!


Hey @Zoe O'Connell , check this out!


I’m a frickin genius.

Context: my kid is mildly allergic to citric acid and citric fruit. Brings out eczema. And citric acid is in SO many things. And it’s painful checking ingredients lists for it.

This morning I wondered: can my phone OCR the ingredients list and check it?

My first thought was to make a little web app. But there doesn’t seem to be a OCR in web browsers yet.

But I KNOW my phone can get text from images.

Then…

Apple Shortcuts!!!

CHECK THIS OUT!!!


in reply to Sarah Brown

I was wondering that for foreign incredible lists in particular, but there are a lot of ways glúten can be listed.

They really need an allergy QR code system. The EU could implement something, but it would take years.