OCR/Roadmap

Currently, all products are edited manually. This project is about automatic or semi-automatic detection of a number of things using OCR and Computer vision.

Tools:

• Google Drive OCR or Google Goggles
• Ocropus
• OpenCV
• Moodstocks

Targets:

• Logos (standardized)
• Text
• Standardized layouts (US Nutrition labels)
• Standardized text (quantities, EU Packaging codes)
• Barcodes (extraction in uploaded images)
• Image orientation: check that the text is properly oriented to guess if the image is properly oriented.

Extracting areas is already great work: if we can extract logos or patterns, it will be faster for humans to double check and turn that into text.