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Tech

• Uses optical character recognition to scan ingredient labels for the list of ingredients
• Utilizes SerpApi to search google for information about the ingredients
• Built using React and Flask

Gallery

Landing Page:

Ingredients in bud light beer:

How to set up:

Back-end:

1. cd into /api
2. pip install -r requirements.txt
3. flask run

Front-end (in a seperate terminal):

1. cd into /client
2. npm install
3. npm start

Using the google search api:

1. pip install google-search-results

Using PaddleOCR

1. pip install paddlepaddle
2. pip install "paddleocr>=2.0.1"