How we built a take-away menu image search engine in just 50 lines of code (opens in new tab)

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13 pointsmortenjust15y ago4 comments

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Take OCR from one app, voice recognition from another, and a third super power from a third app, and you have yourself a new service.

Only if all those three external apps are happy with your app. (According to past experience)

danielharan15y ago

This is a large part of what has sucked about APIs. Before Google Maps, I had to wait days to get a quote on Google and Mapquest services. And with Google Maps, you still had an insane TOS with bizarre caps and no way to pay for it. There was a way to be technically loosely joined, but not legally / business-wise.

d_c15y ago

What are you using for OCR?

I can imagine the fanciful graphics of such menus often make it harder to convert them to text.

duck15y ago

I didn't even know Evernote had an API... but now that I do I will check it out.

Not related - but this is one of the sweetest sushi menus I've ever seen: http://findmaden.dk/menu/438b98d9-989e-4ea2-8bc0-46e4b6eca27...

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