🕵️‍♀️ FBI - Facts 'Bout Ingredients

Submitted to RU Hacks 2022 and received First Place overall!

We've noticed that we often find ourselves reading the nutritional and ingredient labels before deciding if we are going to buy something or not -- BUT how often do we actually understand what each of those ingredients do? How often do we actually know whether a random-chemical-sounding-ish name is good for us or not? FBI was made for us to crack down on these suspicious chemicals...

What it does ❓

• Converts photos of food ingredient labels into researched descriptions of individual ingredients, rendered in an intuitive and readable format

How we built it 🔨

• Our front-end and user-interface was designed and built using React
• API endpoints and all request handling was done with Python/Flask
• PaddleOCR was utilized to perform accurate optical character recognition

Try it out 🏗

Set up repository

git clone https://github.com/addison-ch/FBI/
cd /FBI

Set up back-end server

cd /api
pip install -r requirements.txt
flask run

Set up front-end client (seperate console window)

cd /client
npm install
npm start

Images/Demo 📷