Recipe Reader

UNTESTED EXPERIMENT

Photo-reading AI prototype 0.6.2

This has never been run on any phone. It was only compiled and checked by unit tests. It is not a fix and not a finished release.

• What is different: the AI looks at the photo itself and copies the text. Earlier versions (0.5.3 and 0.5.4-diag below) used a separate text reader (OCR) first and gave its words to the AI. In this prototype OCR is used only if you press a separate "basic text reader" button.
• Needs a one-time 2.6 GB model download (2,588,147,712 bytes, from Hugging Face, Wi-Fi recommended, about 4 GB or more of phone RAM recommended). The app checks the file's SHA-256 and deletes it if it does not match. Photos stay on the phone.
• Risks: it may misread handwriting (unreadable words should show as [?]), it may be slow, and it may crash or close the app, possibly while loading the model. Please do not retry repeatedly.
• It installs over earlier test versions and keeps saved recipes (not tested).

Test flow: install, open the app, tap the download button once, wait for it to finish, then share one recipe photo to the app. Check every line against the card. If the app closes, reopen it and look for the "Last Read run" note at the top.

Download UNTESTED vision prototype 0.6.2 (13.6 MB)

SHA-256: 95d9a5adef3e328e8e1c1d003124f21b6f361c9773963d0ea7cea4a72b0934b2

Known issue in 0.5.3: reading may produce no result and close the app. Photo text recognition can misread quantities or include background text. Investigating; please do not repeatedly retry.

Diagnostic update 0.5.4-diag (does not fix reading). It adds a "Last Read run" note at the top of the app that shows how far reading got and why the app closed, so we can find the cause. It installs over 0.5.3 and keeps your saved recipes. You do not need to press Read again first: after updating, open the app and look for the note. It stays on this device.