Autoscan date about grocy-android HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi,
We also know this problem :)

There are possible solutions from grocy side (maybe you don't want them):

• Enter the average best before days of the product in the product edit form (because for most products it is not important if the real best before date is one or two week before or after). So in this way you can reduce the count of date inputs.
• Enter -1 in the best before days field for products which usually have a long shelf life. This can also reduce the amount of date inputs.
• Disable best before date tracking in the config file.

We won't implement a date scanner in our app, because it is often difficult to recognize these dates with an OCR approach as there are different printing techniques (simple printed text, dot matrix dates) and the quality of the print is often poor. So it would be too much work for us to implement such a feature.

There is one app in the Play Store which has this ability (Expiration Date Scanner - FoodLess) but we don't know what approach it is using for recognition – it is not open source.

We're sorry to disappoint you.
Best regards

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Sorry, I've sent my comment too early :)

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I often have prepared meals, meat or something else in the refrigerator that have a fixed date, it can take a long time to enter all the dates.
What I currently do, I scan and then put them in the fridge. Then in the evening, I come with the computer and I put the dates of the latest products directly from Grocy.

Hard to find a simple solution, but I understand the difficulty of the feature, it was just an idea;)

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I tried it with the app from Play Store – It doesn't make much fun, the text recognition takes long and you have to manually tap on scan each time.
Thanks for the idea, but I think that the saved time wouldn't be worth mentioning because it often needs more than one scan until it's correct.

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I've made some Google searches: the only really good developed android-specific library is the Google Vision API which is included in Play Services...
All other solutions probably aren't good enough and not really developed for Android, like Tesseract for example. So there aren't many useful OCR libs out there for open-source apps, I think we should focus on the main functionalities of Grocy.

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