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Cookbook

Personal project

2025

Recipes live on paper, in photos, and in PDFs. The product turns that mess into a cookbook you can search and share.

Browse recipes
Cookbook
Extract with AI
Recipe
Problem
A photo of a recipe card is not data. People cannot search it, edit it, or hand it to someone else in a useful form.
Decision
An upload becomes a pipeline. Optical character recognition pulls the text. A language model maps that text into structured fields — title, ingredients, steps — that a person can correct before it is saved.
Result
Unstructured kitchen notes become records. The interface is a searchable cookbook, not a folder of images.
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Express
  • MongoDB
  • Tesseract.js
  • OpenAI
github.com/mcohen2000/cook-book-app