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 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. Add all of the photos to a single scan and Paprika will combine them into one recipe: scanning additional photos appends their text to the recipe.

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 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.