Changes

=== Offline mode ===

=== Offline mode ===

* A small version of the database needs to be included in the app (at install, and then synched regularly)

* A small version of the database needs to be included in the app (at install, and then synced regularly)

** All products, but only key data

** All products, but only key data

* When scanning products, key data should be shown instantly, even if there's no network

* When scanning products, key data should be shown instantly, even if there's no network

== Data science ==

== Data science ==

Why it's important: our product database is growing rapidly (10k new products every Month in early 2019), we need automated ways to extract and validate data

Why it's important: our product database is growing rapidly (730k products, with 10k new products every month in early 2019), we need automated ways to extract and validate data

Background: to date, we have done very little in this area

Background: We have started in the past year to ramp up effort, and we have processed 1,5 million images with OCR and general entity, barcode and QR-code recognition. The result is 1,5 million matching JSON files with bounding boxes.

=== Automatically classify products ===

=== Automatically classify products ===

* We currently have performance issues with MongoDB requests that could be optimized

* We currently have performance issues with MongoDB requests that could be optimized

* There are many other areas for improvements for the backend, see https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server

* There are many other areas for improvements for the backend, see https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server

== 2018- 2017 Project ideas ==

== 2018- 2017 Project ideas ==