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.