Date of Award
1-1-2013
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Department
Computer Science and Engineering
Sub-Department
Computer Science & Engineering
First Advisor
Michael N Huhns
Abstract
Food, honestly, is too precious to waste. Food wastage is a very serious issue prevalent in the world today. American households alone throw out an equivalent of $165 billion worth of food each year. People often forget to consume food they purchased before the expiration date, or sometimes they over-purchase food they can have, then throw them away. Hence, this thesis aims to prevent food wastage with the help of a smart phone application that helps keep track of food item expiration dates and gives you notification alerts when it is about to expire. It implements a barcode scanner for automatic product name discovery as well as optical character recognition (OCR) for automatic food expiration discovery.
Rights
© 2013, Rejin Paul James
Recommended Citation
James, R. P.(2013). An Application for Keeping Track of Food Item Expiration. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/2463