An embedded software development package platform for cloud OCR

In a world focused on the need of selling an increasingly large quantity of goods, quality, visual appearance, texture, flavor, taste etc. become central elements that support the global economic development. As a result, different types of food additives were and are still designed and used to fulfill such objectives. In what follows, the aim of this paper is to present the design and implementation of a new software package for embedded systems (smart phones) able to support a customer in the process of food purchasing. The developed software package runs on an Android platform and uses a cloud optical character recognition (OCR) algorithm. The information related to the product of interest and supplied at request to the customers are: the name and the code of the product's additives, the risks associated with each food additive, the source of each food components, the limit of its daily consumption and the side effects, diet restrictions etc.