FYP 1 - Week 12

Title: Previous projects

1. Tiny Scanner

Tiny Scanner is a little scanner app that turns android device into a portable document scanner and scan everything as images or PDFs. This product is developed by Appxy Inc. Hong Kong

 

  

Figure 1: Tiny Scanner app

Features

Ø  Scan color, grayscale, or black & white.

Ø  Can be used in office, school, home and anywhere else you want.

Ø  Page edges are detected automatically

Ø  5 level of contrasts for crisp monochrome texts

Ø  Set page sizes for PDF (Letter, Legal, A4, and more)

Ø  Thumbnail or list view, sort scans by date or title

Ø  Tiny Scanner is optimized to run very fast

Ø  Quick search by document title

Ø  Protect your documents with a passcode

Ø  Universal – a single app that works on phone and tablet too!

2. QR & Barcode Scanner

QR & Barcode Scanner is the fastest QR / barcode scanner out there. QR & Barcode Scanner is an essential app for every Android device. QR & Barcode Scanner / QR code reader is extremely easy to use; simply point to QR colour barcode you want to scan and the app will automatically detect and scan it. No need to press any buttons, take photos or adjust zoom.

QR & Barcode Scanner can scan and read all QR / barcode types including text, url, ISBN, product, contact, calendar, email, location, Wi-Fi and many other formats. After scan and automatic decoding user is provided with only the relevant options for individual QR or Barcode type and can take appropriate action. You can even use QR & Barcode Scanner to scan coupons / coupon codes to receive discounts and save some money.

Scan products barcodes with QR & Barcode Scanner app is the only QR code reader / barcode scanner you will ever need. This product is developed by Gamma Play Limited, Hong Kong

 

Figure 2: QR & Barcode Scanner

3. Barcode Scanner Pro

This is a Professional Edition barcode scanner. It is uses to scan, decoding, create QR coding, share the QR code or barcode. It is more fast and accurate compare to the free edition. This application is based on the open source project ZXing barcode scanner. Apache License 2.0. This application is developed by Geeks Lab, China.

 

                                              Figure 3: Barcode Scanner Pro

FYP 1 - Week 11

Title: Project details


"DESIGNING OF IMAGE RECOGNITION TO TEXT CODE TRANSLATOR FOR FOOD INGREDIENTS"


INTRODUCTION

Food are essential to human beings. Today, numerous cases have been manipulated by people about the food ingredients. People do not know exactly what are contained in the food ingredients whether it is something benefit or dangerous to health. This issue has lately becomes a concern especially in Malaysia. One example of the cases is regarding the fat in the food. The fat is only represented as code or scientific name and therefore making it hard for consumers to know the HALAL status of the food. In this case, this can be a problem to muslims as for their religion they cannot eat pig and dog. Hence, to minimize this issue, consumers need a device that can be use to identify the status of the ingredients. Provided that most of the peoples nowadays is using a smartphone, a mobile application that can be use as a device to translate the coloring code of ingredients and display the detail information about the ingredient is practical for consumers.



PROJECT BACKGROUND

The idea of using the OCR (Optical Characater Recognition) software to convert printed characters into digital text, to prove that it can be a unique concept that will stand apart from the average projects. Food manufactures nowadays use all kind of food addictives/colouring in their products. Some of the food addictives/colouring can bring harm to health. To avoid this, mobile application that can be use to trace the harm substances in food ingredients is practical for consumers.



PROBLEM STATEMENT
Nowadays, people tend to get illnesses from what they eat. People like to eat but they do not identify what are ingredients contained in the food they consumed. Food manufacturers use all kind of food colouring in their products yet consumers still do not know which kind of food addictives / colouring that can bring harm to their health. Food packaging does not provide enough information regarding the ingredients contained in the food. Moreover, for certain food packaging, it only provides colouring code for which the consumer do not understand what it means.

Colouring ingredients can give bad effects to the consumer such as allergic, headache and lot more. Using this application, the customers do not need to search the information about the food ingredients by using the internet or bring books about food ingredient’s colouring code. This portable application will help the consumer to decipher the food ingredient’s colouring code and give the information about the food colouring code contained in the food immediately.



OBJECTIVES

The objective of this project are as the following:-

• To design mobile application software with the ability to translate code of food ingredients.

• To apply the Android Study software as the medium of the application development.

FYP 1 - Week 10

Title: Final Year Project 1 presentation

In this presentation session, each student will be assess by 2 lecturers which is picked by UniKL BMI management. Student need to prepare a slide show where contains Introduction, Objectives, Problem statement, Scope and limitation, Literature review, Methodology and Expected outcome.

The slide show for the presentation must be easy to understand. This is because the student need to reassure the assessors regarding the project.

FYP 1 - Week 9

Title: Flow Chart




Flow chart is a type of diagram that represents an algorithm or process, showing the steps as boxes of various kinds, and their order by connecting these with arrows. The flow chart below shows the complete process of how Image to Text Code Translator for Food Ingredients works. This flowchart shows the details of each process that happen through each station. This flowchart is design very detail as the system works mechanically and through programming sequence. It helps a lot in making decision and control on how each process works.

Explanation about the flow chart

As the application is start, the system will start to working in the background. When the camera button in the application is pressed, the camera will start operate. The camera will then take the pictures which will be save in the gallery before automatically converting it into a text file. The data are saved for future reference in case of any desired. The converted text file will be read then scan in the database to find the information about the ingredient. The output will be display.