Hello, Pierre co-founder of the Open Food Facts NGO. We have a multi-year AI effort you can help with. https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Artificial_Intelligence
We have weekly community meetings, compute to get things rolling, and a swell/quick from Test to Production and Impact loop :-)
We need a modern opensource barcode reader. The best thing (zxing) is in maintenance mode, and the newer barcode scanners with niceties like neural scan, 90% scan, bortched barcode scan are all closed source.
I agree, I once took a shot at porting ZXing to the Microsoft Hololens. I was amazed that there aren't very many open source barcode interpreters available right now.
This is so true. It blows my mind that nothing exist beyond zxing. Barcodes are everywhere, and quick access to them is the gate-way to a million cool apps, etc.
My code probably would have worked with good image quality, but I wanted something more robust that would work with a cheap webcam. I imagine the pi camera module is about the same.
No, no worries about personal consumption. What the OdBL requires you to do is to add missing products. Not add data outside the scope of the original database.
(I'm a Open Food Facts admin)
Also please don't scrape us, since we release nightly dumps of the DB :)
Thanks for clarifying that. And that's great that those DB downloads are available. I didn't like the idea of scraping the data in the first place so never went that route.
Feel free to ping me at pierre openfoodfacts.org
We have a online discussion chat, if you want to integrate OFF at some point, and have questions about the OdBL
Open Food Facts ranks all products from A to E, using the French Nutriscore. It helps you compare products within a category, and get a general sense of how bad the product is, nutrition wise.
You're in luck, we've just imported 175K Open Data products from the USDA, so it now works in the US :-)
Also it's collaborative, so please take pictures as you scan products :)
