Eat-Safe Smart Scan

Welcome to Eat-Safe Smart Scan! Our mission is to enhance food safety and empower individuals with dietary restrictions by providing a user-friendly, tech-driven solution for allergen detection.

Demo

Check out the live demo https://eat-safe.github.io/smart-scan/.

About

Eat-Safe Smart Scan is a web application that utilizes OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to extract text from images of food product labels. It then analyzes the extracted text to detect potential allergens and displays the results to the user.

Key Features

• Scan food product labels using your device's camera or upload images from your device.
• Extract text from the images using OCR technology.
• Analyze the extracted text to detect potential allergens.
• Display allergen information to the user, highlighting any detected allergens.
• Save ingredients to a list for future reference.
• Meet our team and learn about our mission on the About Us page.

Technologies Used

• React.js
• TypeScript
• Tesseract.js (for OCR)
• React Router
• HTML5/CSS3

Installation

To run the project locally, follow these steps:

1. Clone this repository:
   • git clone https://github.com/eat-safe/smart-scan.git
2. Navigate to project directory:
   • cd smart-scan
3. Install dependencies:
   • npm install
4. Run development server:
   • npm start
5. Open your web browser and visit http://localhost:3000 to view the app.

License

• This project is under a GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE - see the LICENSE file for details.