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US 2025/0225569 A1Published application
Recipe scanner and shopping cart generator
AssigneeAlbertsons Companies, Inc
InventorsNathan Gerard LAPIERRE, Balaji NAMBI, Nitin SAKSENA, Laura HIGGINS, Guangchen WANG, Jeffrey CROWE
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Abstract
Disclosed embodiments relate to a system and process by which a photograph or other image, containing written text of a recipe, can be digitized and transformed into a digital artifact, such that an e-commerce shopping cart or grocery list of required products can be automatically assembled based on the digitization.
Claims15
A method for capturing and shopping a recipe comprising:
- capturing an image of a physical recipe document using a mobile device;
- automatically processing the image into text and identifying and categorizing relevant information from the text as parts of a recipe;
- automatically comparing ingredients identified in the processed recipe parts with products available in a meal plan system to create and display a shoppable recipe, and adding the products to a shopping cart and to execute a purchase.
A system for capturing and shopping a recipe comprising:
- a mobile device configured to capture an image of a physical recipe document;
- an application on the mobile device configured to
- automatically process the image into text and identify and categorize relevant information from the text as parts of a recipe;
- automatically compare ingredients identified in the processed recipe parts with products available in a meal plan system to create and display a shoppable recipe, and
- add the products to a shopping cart and to execute a purchase.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.