Nutrition Fact Table Extraction and Analysis
Abstract
Ignorant dietary consumption is a major cause for lifestyle diseaes in the 21st century. Technology can play a major role to deliver awareness to people regarding their dietary consumption, enabling them to make smarter decisions.
During the summer of 2018, I was a Google Summer of Code Mentor with Open Food Facts
I supervised development of a tool to extract and analyse dietary information from nutritional fact table available on products.
The project was integrated into the OFF mobile application that currently has over 100k users worldwide.
It had 3 major components:
- Table Detection
- Text Detection
- OCR (with post processing)
The lead developer was Sagar Panchal, a GSoC student I supervised.
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