Client:
Our Foodtech partner provides restraunts and users across the world a service which helps them pair alcoholic beverage to food items. They have millions of food and beverage items stored in their database. They use technology and industry expertise to provide an algorithm which matches food items to appropriate beverage.
The Challenge
The US has over 80,000 restaurants that have millions of food items and millions of beverages. They had to digitize these menu items and store them in their databases. These menus could be in different formats, fonts, and languages.
They were trying to digitize these menus manually and it would take them days to integrate each restaurant. Without an extensive database, they would not be able to provide accurate results for their current customers. They needed to integrate menus at scale!
The Solution
Nanonet’s AI tool- OCR captures information from menus and sends it to the food-tech client. They trained the AI to extract the data from menus, post which they perform checks to ensure that all fields are correctly populated and in line with expectations.
This data is stored in an SQL database which is used as input by their proprietary software. Their software can now directly match food items with beverages and also based on the restaurant inventory.
