[mythtv-users] MythRecipe - Good progress

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Wed Feb 13 16:54:06 UTC 2008


Jon wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2008, at 8:08 AM, Kevin Wambsganz wrote:
> 
>> We have the same issue, lots of printed recipes.
>>
>> So, I plan to scan them in and use OCR to translate the text. Just  
>> copy and paste the text into MythRecipe. Also, the recipe image,  
>> picture of the finished dish(if it exists), must be saved into a  
>> file. The image will be saved into the database.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
> 
> Will there be any way to share these recipes? Maybe an online  
> repository you could submit them to? (I dunno where... maybe a gmail  
> account? it's got plenty of space!)
> 
Careful there tiger. A whole lot of those recipes you see will be copyrighted or 
some such daft nonsense.

Hmmm. Might be a bit like dress patterns. i.e. you can make them up yourself, 
make backup copies, can't make them for profit or pass them on. Your laws may 
vary, as they say.

Mike Perkins



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