Blogs

From Fridge to Feast: Building a Recipe Generator with Generative AI How I used Gemini, RAG, and structured outputs to solve my “What’s for dinner?” problem The Problem: Kitchen Chaos We’ve all been there: staring into a fridge full of random ingredients—half a bell pepper, leftover chicken, wilting spinach—and wondering, “What can I even make with this?” Recipe websites rarely help because they assume you have pantry staples or time for grocery runs. ...

Improving OCR Accuracy on Document Images: A Step-by-Step Approach Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is revolutionizing the way we digitize and process documents. Whether it’s converting a scanned document into editable text or extracting data from receipts, OCR technology is increasingly relied upon across industries. However, one of the main challenges faced by OCR systems is their accuracy, especially when dealing with noisy or poorly scanned images. In this blog, I’ll walk you through the techniques I used to improve OCR accuracy on document images by leveraging pre-processing methods. ...