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!!!

@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

@syntaxseed @ross a simple list would be awesome, is this possible in shortcuts?
understanding that its not 100% accurate maybe
Shortcuts

@Mattmaber Nice! Just don’t use for serious allergies. Use at your own risk.

Did I already tell you that?