Recipe Reader

UNTESTED EXPERIMENT

Gallery finder and CPU/GPU speed test 0.7.2

This has never been run on any phone. It was only compiled and checked by unit tests. It does not fix reading accuracy and it is not proven faster.

• Find recipe photos in a gallery album: pick an album and a range (newest 50, newest 200, or last 30 days up to 300). The app checks each photo on the phone for recipe words and shows a list with the likeliest first. It only ranks: every photo is shown, nothing is hidden. Handwriting and sideways photos may rank low. Tap "Read this photo" to read one; you review it before anything is saved.
• Photo access prompt: Android will ask for photo access. If you allow only selected photos, the app sees only those and says so ("partial access"). Photos stay on the phone. The scan does not upload, save or delete anything. A "Stop scanning" button stops it between photos.
• Experimental speed test (CPU vs GPU): reads the same photo on CPU, then on GPU, and shows load time and read time separately, plus any numbers that differ. Each side reads the photo twice; compare the second read. It is one photo on one phone and proves nothing general. GPU may not work on this phone and may close the app. It stops after one GPU failure. Please do not retry repeatedly. "Stop speed test" only takes effect after the current step: a model load or read already running cannot be interrupted and can take a minute or more. Faster is not better if a quantity changed.
• Same model as 0.6.2: no additional download. The one-time 2.6 GB model download is still needed if you have not done it (Wi-Fi recommended).
• It installs over earlier test versions. Whether saved recipes survive the update is not verified; no recipe-saving code was changed.

Download UNTESTED gallery and speed test 0.7.2 (13.7 MB)

SHA-256: b327e472e61aa6bfde02610584d4d7d0232934f243a610c686fc062ad6fb64cb

UNTESTED EXPERIMENT (previous)

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 what was recorded before the app closed, to help look for 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.