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Import Recipes from Images

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I have recipes in the form of jpeg files, which i can currently only import by tipping them in manually.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be nice to integrate some form of OCR, Image to Text recognition. There are some open source projects out there, maybe one could "steal" some code of them to make this feature possible. Here is an example --> https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

Describe alternatives you've considered
There are websites out there which do provide OCR, maybe one could integrate these instead? Example --> https://www.onlineocr.net (first google hit, there are many more out there)

I am no programmer and i do not know how hard it is to implement such feature. I just wanted to share this idea here.

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by determining whether image import belongs in the browser, backend, or both, then compare the mentioned Tesseract and onlineocr.net options. Done should mean a JPEG recipe can be converted into usable recipe text.

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Assessment

Domain
full-stack
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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