Identification of additives and preservatives in packaged foods using python and image processing, Food is an essential element for all living organisms. Processed foods have a very limited life, in order to preserve them for a longer time and to have good flavor, texture, and taste, food additives and preservatives are used. This study is taken to investigate the effects of food additives and preservatives on human health and did research on different Optical Character Recognition (OCR) algorithms. In this project, we propose an OCR-based algorithm to identify food additives and preservatives in packaged foods by analyzing the contents of the package and finding their effect on human health. Here, the image of the contents of the package is applied to Image enhancement techniques such as to increase the accuracy of the OCR. The Google Cloud Vision API detects text from enhanced images based on CNN with high accuracy. The extracted text is filtered to remove undesirable words using RegEx. The filtered keywords are used to search in the predefined dataset where data is taken from the Standard Food Safety Organizations such as FDA and FSSAI. By using Google Cloud Vision API, we can extract text with an accuracy of 99.1%
Hemasai1344/foodinfo
Identification of additives and preservatives in packaged foods using python and image processing
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