I Built an AI That Turns Menu Text Into Mouthwatering Food Pics

Written by hacker20536007 | Published 2025/08/01
Tech Story Tags: generative-ai | side-project | startup-weekend | software-development | open-ai | image-generation | lovable-ai | vibe-coding-images

TLDRIn a single weekend, I built an AI-powered service that takes a screenshot of a food menu, extracts dish names using OCR (Tesseract), parses them with OpenAI, and generates realistic food images using a generative model. The project is open-source and live — check out the code and demo at the end of the article.via the TL;DR App
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Written by hacker20536007 | Software Engineer
Published by HackerNoon on 2025/08/01
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