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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!!!

I’m sad to say I’ve decided to close this instance down. It was a fun experiment for a couple months, but there’s little engagement here and sites like WatchCrunch already exist.

I’m on there regularly and it’s great, I’d strongly suggest you sign up if you’re interested in the social side of watch collecting.

This instance will cease to exist on 25th Jan.