My Devember project is to develop an solution to file away my recipe collection in such a way that it is: searchable, taggable, iterate-able with history. It should depend on open source and ideally free / low cost services. A moon-shot goal would be a way to automatically OCR images to load files to the recipe registry.
As a starting point, I’m looking to learn new static site generators, various website features, and dabbling in some OCR.
Decided on Hugo. Reason: new to me, fast, shortcode feature looks neat.
Decided on github pages.
Researched laws / regulation: tl;dr - a list of ingredients cannot be copyrighted. The instructions are. The instructions are considered literary expression.
As a note: I probably can’t OCR recipes I find, unless they are my own written ones. I need to rewrite the instructions myself for all recipes. Which isn’t the worst - as then they are ‘curated’.
Updates: I’ve added some recipes. I looked at adding search, got most of the way there… then the theme author implemented it. I’ve tested that, but there’s no obvs way to edit the search params (its using fuse.js) so looking into that.
Hi, this is a very interesting way to store, search and tag recipes. Good work !
Two suggestions:
I have heard and seen some restaurants allowing guests to take note of their recipes from menu or from the Chefs themselves. Not many are used to or wish to be voice or video recorded. So, old style pen and paper is the way to go. You can use your OCR for such use cases.
This is a long shot and probably for future development: you could look into AI text generation models to form sentences specific to recipes, that too keywords from ingredients. For example, onions are usually diced into large pieces for stocks, whereas onions are used in small diced form for Shakshuka and so on.
