Scanning Recipes

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1. Crop, rotate and zoom Scanning a Recipe
2. Photos in this scan Scanning a Recipe
3. Scan button Scanning a Recipe
4. Recipe fields Editing a Scanned Recipe
5. Save button Editing a Scanned Recipe

Paprika can turn photos of recipes into structured recipes in your collection. Take a photo of a cookbook page, a magazine clipping, or a handwritten recipe card, and Paprika will read the text and sort it into the appropriate recipe fields for you.

Scanning needs Premium, and its use is limited.

Scanning a Recipe Premium

Go to File -> New Recipe From Photo(s) in the menu bar, or press the button on the recipes screen and choose Scan Recipe. Then select one or more image files from your computer — Paprika accepts common image formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and BMP. You can select several files at once.

A recipe can span multiple photos — for example, a page of ingredients and a page of directions. Click a thumbnail to show that photo, and click Scan on each photo you would like to read. When the form already has text, Paprika asks whether to Add to Recipe, adding the new text to it, or Replace Text, putting the new scan in its place.

The scan screen shows your photos beside the recipe form. Before scanning, you can crop, rotate, and zoom each photo so that only the recipe text is included. When you're ready, press Scan. Paprika will process the photo and fill in the recognized recipe for review.

Editing a Scanned Recipe

After scanning, the recognized text is sorted into the recipe's fields — name, ingredients, directions, and so on — and displayed in the recipe form beside the original photo. Compare the result against the photo, correct anything the scan missed, and press Save to add the recipe to your collection.

Scanning a Recipe's Photo Premium

To scan a photo that's already in one of your recipes:

1. Open the recipe and click its photo to open the gallery.
2. Go to the photo you want, then click in the upper right and choose Scan Text. The scan starts right away.
3. If the recipe already has text, choose Add to Recipe to add the scan to it, or Replace Text to put the scan in its place.
4. Check the result and click Save to save the recipe.

To leave the recipe as it was, click Cancel instead. Scan Text is available once the photo has downloaded.

Scanning Tips

• For best scan quality, pick a high-resolution image with clear, readable text.
• When photographing a page, make sure it is evenly lit and the text isn't distorted by the curve of the page.
• Crop out surrounding text (like other recipes on the same page) so only one recipe is scanned at a time.