Optical character recognition feature implementation in cooking recipe application using tesseract Google project

摘要

Development of cooking recipe application is not a new topic in this time, many available cooking recipe mobile application that serve in the developer application store that available for user to use it as their cooking assistant. But as the author review about the related work, the available cooking recipe application only serves the user the common features, like: show the list of recipes; search the recipe by the ingredient or by the title of the recipe. In this research the author intent to combine cooking mobile application technology with Optical Character Recognition technology by Implementing OCR feature in the cooking application as the additional feature that can be used in searching recipe(s) by using their camera to capture a new image or by simply choose the existing image. The development of the application is using tesseract Google project as the library for supporting the development of this application, and in the end of the research, the author will conclude whether text recognition feature that implemented in cooking recipes application could help the user in searching recipe or not.