Get handwritten recipes off paper

Index cards fade, get splashed, and go missing in house moves. Photographing them is the easy part; the tedious part is typing them all in. This does the typing — you photograph the card, it comes back as a recipe you can search, print, and correct where the camera misread.

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Ärtsoppa

Thursday soup. Better the next day, as everyone's grandmother insisted.

Ingredients

Method

  1. 1Drain the peas and bring to the boil in fresh water. Skim.
  2. 2Add the pork, onion and marjoram. Simmer until the peas collapse.
  3. 3Lift out the pork, slice, and return it to the pot.

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Paste a recipe you already have typed

Any recipe you have as text — from a website, a message, an email. No account, nothing saved unless you want it.

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Copies, doesn't rewrite

Quantities come across as written. An importer that quietly "fixes" 2 teaspoons to 2 tablespoons has destroyed the recipe.

You get to check it

Everything lands in an editor, not in a black box. A second pass can flag quantities that look wrong and tell you why.

Readable afterwards

Big type, numbered steps, and a screen that stays awake while your hands are covered.

Questions

Does it read handwriting?
Usually, if you can read it. Photograph the card straight on, one recipe per picture, in decent light.
What if it gets something wrong?
Fix it in the editor — it's a normal recipe from that point. Nothing is locked.
Do I need an account to photograph one?
For photographs, yes. Pasted text you can try here and now, without one.

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The one you cook most, or the one you'd be sorry to lose. The rest follows.

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