2 papers
cs.CV2026
A Conservative OCR-Enabled Workflow for R214 Sodium Screening of South African Packaged Foods
Mayimunah Nagayi, Alice Scaria Khan, Tamryn Frank +2
Using food package images to monitor sodium and salt content against South Africa's R214 sodium limits is challenging when screening decisions require product identity, nutrition f…
cs.CV2025
Evaluating OCR performance on food packaging labels in South Africa
Mayimunah Nagayi, Alice Khan, Tamryn Frank +2
This study evaluates four open-source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems which are Tesseract, EasyOCR, PaddleOCR, and TrOCR on real world food packaging images. The aim is…