MenuSnap - Food Search
MenuSnap - Food Search
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What is it?Have you ever tried to order food at a foreign food establishment or fine dining restaurant and could not figure out what was on the menu because the food items were all in foreign languages and there were no images beside them?We're changing that by introducing MenuSnap, a new way to look at your menu.MenuSnap is an Android app that scans your food menu into a user-friendly interface for you to easily search and translate the food items. This makes it ideal for people like travellers who needs to find out whats that foreign food name on their menus.
With MenuSnap, you can now make well-informed choices when ordering your food. Simply Search & Translate the items on your menu to get a good idea of each food item.
App Features:Optical Character RecognitionScanning a photo or saved image of a menuRich image search results (Powered by Bing)Translation to 50+ languages Saved menus for future referenceBeautiful Material design elements
Frequently Asked QuestionsQ: Does the app use a lot of data?A: No it minimizes data usage by compressing the image and preloading only thumbnail images of the food items.This gives a confirmed data usage of ~200kB for scanning each menu.In our testing, the average user would only use ~700kB per menu to get all the info he needs.
Q: What are you guys using for the OCR service?A: We are using the Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs. More specifically it is the computer vision API.
Q: How does the OCR perform under poor conditions? (blur images, dark lighting)A: Like any other OCR service, MenuSnap requires a menu image of decent quality to provide a good scan of the menu. The OCR quality gets better with the image quality of the menu photo.
Q: How many languages can the app translate into?A: We are using Bing Translator API which provides translations into 50+ languages. However some of these languages are not supported by Android so do report back if there are any issues with translations into your language.
For other questions feel free to drop us an email.
Disclaimer.Photos taken through MenuSnap may be retained by Microsoft for service improvement purposes. This is for the OCR service and no private information would be retained by MenuSnap.
With MenuSnap, you can now make well-informed choices when ordering your food. Simply Search & Translate the items on your menu to get a good idea of each food item.
App Features:Optical Character RecognitionScanning a photo or saved image of a menuRich image search results (Powered by Bing)Translation to 50+ languages Saved menus for future referenceBeautiful Material design elements
Frequently Asked QuestionsQ: Does the app use a lot of data?A: No it minimizes data usage by compressing the image and preloading only thumbnail images of the food items.This gives a confirmed data usage of ~200kB for scanning each menu.In our testing, the average user would only use ~700kB per menu to get all the info he needs.
Q: What are you guys using for the OCR service?A: We are using the Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs. More specifically it is the computer vision API.
Q: How does the OCR perform under poor conditions? (blur images, dark lighting)A: Like any other OCR service, MenuSnap requires a menu image of decent quality to provide a good scan of the menu. The OCR quality gets better with the image quality of the menu photo.
Q: How many languages can the app translate into?A: We are using Bing Translator API which provides translations into 50+ languages. However some of these languages are not supported by Android so do report back if there are any issues with translations into your language.
For other questions feel free to drop us an email.
Disclaimer.Photos taken through MenuSnap may be retained by Microsoft for service improvement purposes. This is for the OCR service and no private information would be retained by MenuSnap.