Linking Receipt Parser with Open Food Facts

[teolemon]

hi @mre
We're building an open worldwide database of food products. You give it a barcode, or a product name, and you get detailed information about the product.
It's a crowdsourced database fed by smartphone apps.

It would be cool to create a database of supermarket receipts, and be able to look them up on Open Food Facts (how many calories did I buy today, or even how much did the average calorie cost)

[mre]

Hey @teolemon,
sorry for the radio silence. I meant to respond for a long time, but I never found the time to do so.
Most likely, you were not expecting any answer anymore, but here we go.

Anyway, I think your idea is great and an open food database is something very valuable.
I'm just not sure how this project could help you with that. It's quite a simple program that scans receipts and then writes the result into a csv file. There's no network connection to a central database and I don't think I would want that because of privacy reasons. It doesn't run on a smartphone - and I don't think it ever will - but if anyone wants to make it happen, please do. 😉

In the end, I guess I don't understand the question. Maybe we can clarify that. In any case our team is happy to accept pull requests and we're totally open for further discussions.

[teolemon]

ah ok. FYI the whole db export clocks at 1GB right now, and we've designed a small version at 70MB.

[teolemon]

https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data

[mre]

Looks nice! Keep it up. 😃 Will close the issue now.