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 threadSherri W (SyntaxSeed)Jan 11, 2023

@ross
Lots of food allergy and intolerances in my family. An app for this would be invaluable.

Maybe where you could configure a list of no-go words like

peanut
sucrose
citric

Etc

Show threadRoss WintleJan 11, 2023

@syntaxseed No one would build an app like this though. The consequences if you got it wrong would be immense. You'd have your ass sued so fast!

Only use for minor allergies. Not stuff like nuts.

Show threadSherri W (SyntaxSeed)
@ross I found a few in the Google Play store. But none let you set custom words to watch for.
Jan 11, 2023 at 5:08pmWeb