Ross WintleJan 11, 2023

I’m a frickin genius.

Context: my kid is mildly allergic to citric acid and citric fruit. Brings out eczema. And citric acid is in SO many things. And it’s painful checking ingredients lists for it.

This morning I wondered: can my phone OCR the ingredients list and check it?

My first thought was to make a little web app. But there doesn’t seem to be a OCR in web browsers yet.

But I KNOW my phone can get text from images.

Then…

Apple Shortcuts!!!

CHECK THIS OUT!!!

Show threadbazbt3 🦣
@ross This, this is worthy of favouriting, bookmarking *and* saving elsewhere. Just in case you didn't know, you are a frickin genius. :)
Jan 11, 2023 at 3:52pmWeb
Show threadRoss WintleJan 11, 2023
@bazbt3 Thanks. I wouldn’t normally say such nice things about myself tbh. But this was pretty inspired! 🤯
Show threadbazbt3 🦣Jan 11, 2023

@ross It's the first time I've started to compile a shortcut by typing instead of laboriously scrolling each section. Thanks, my muse. :)

Oh, I've added a bit to the Otherwise: ' "SAFE", ymmv, objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear. '

You get the idea. :)