A friend gifted me a few hellofresh boxes once and I quite liked the recipes. But I don’t care about subscription services to get overpriced groceries delivered if the supermarket is a 5 minutes walk away.
Is there any collection on the recipes online? At least in Germany, recipes aren’t even copyrighted, so it wouldn’t even be illegal to distribute them here (AFAIK, IANAL).
If you don’t mind them auf Englisch, I’ve got a hoard of them and time with a duplex scanner.
I sure don’t mind them in english. Would be really neat if you’d share them. (:
I’ve done less useful things with a Monday morning before. PDFs, and I will try to suss a way to set the file names programatically.
A handful may come with ‘pre-printed accidents’ but all will be legible :)
As long as the scanner can handle the slightly thicker paper stock they use, we should be golden.
I’m still wondering if there’s a place where to communally share these recipes, other than importing them on some big recipe platform.
Python, Tesseract, OpenAI and my 3 remaining brain cells have now combined to form a working script that will rename the scan file names to whatever it reads in a certain section of the card.
Doing them by hand would be a nightmare 😅
Wow, someone needed a project. ;)
Thanks a lot, seriously! ^^
Good news, they went through the ADF without too much trouble. Images just need a little contrast adjustment.
The copier used also OCR’d the whole lot, so they’ll be searchable.
Has gone suprisingly well.
Tesseract failed in some places, making some of the sub-headings come out in what looks like Klingon. HF have varied their paper stock dimensions as well, which caused a few things to be clipped.
Acceptable output for manual corrections.
Preview:
Expect a DM soon-ish.
Welcome.
Didn’t realise just how many I had - a whole box file full and overflow from that.
I’ve had a nice morning so far sorting, de-duping and remembering the time I coated half the kitchen in sesame seeds…
Been meaning to do it for ages so cheers for the incentive!
Now I am wondering the same.
And looking down the rabbithole of Tesseract OCR haha.