README.md

🕵️‍♀️ FBI - Facts 'Bout Ingredients

RU Hacks 2022 first place winner 🥇

Web app to convert photos of food ingredient labels into researched descriptions of individual ingredients, rendered in an intuitive and readable format

How we built it 🔨

• Our front-end and user-interface was designed and built using React
• API endpoints and all request handling was done with Python/Flask
• PaddleOCR was utilized to perform accurate optical character recognition

Images/Demo 📷

Try it out 🏗

Set up repository

git clone https://github.com/addison-ch/FBI/
cd /FBI

Set up back-end server

cd /api
pip install -r requirements.txt
flask run

Set up front-end client (seperate console window)

cd /client
npm install
npm start