Grocery Guard is an Android app that allows users to keep track of their groceries. The app uses the phone camera to scan receipts for food items that were purchased. The app provides recipes which use ingredients owned and provides reminders about when food is likely to expire.
Pre-processing of images is done using Leptonica and OCR is accomplished with Tesseract. The user’s data is synchronized using Parse. The source code can be found on GitHub. This project was create as part of YHacks 2013.
