For users with hyperopia, Vysion allows the user to input an ingredient, material, and any other criteria to be checked against a product's composition.
Equipped with the newest in Google Cloud services, Google Vision's REST and RPC APIs offer pre-trained ML models.
Code is readily available for use on Github!
Streamlined and simple experience for the user.
For one of the developers, being called over to read instructions to a parent with hyperopia was a daily occurence, since the parent had a sugar allergy. With the developer leaving for university, there left a void for a glorified ingredient scanner, until now.
And of course, the mentors and friends of PennApps that led us along the right path. And caffeine.