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Lonewolfmcquade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I have a huge messy folder on my server packed with hundreds of recipes in plain text, rtf, PDF, and other formats. Can this tool automagically import and organize all of them?

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TraceApps@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Honestly, not automagically. CookTrace’s bulk importers today handle JSON, HTML, schema.org Recipe markup, and full-backup zips from Mealie / Tandoor / Paprika. Plain text, RTF, and PDF aren’t on that list yet, and there’s no “point at a folder and import everything” mode.

What works today for the same end goal:

Photo Import — point Trace AI at an image of any recipe (including a PDF you’ve screenshotted) and it extracts it. Fine for a handful, probably painful for hundreds.

Trace AI chat — paste the recipe text into the assistant and ask it to create a recipe. Same idea, no image step.

A proper “scan this folder/file(s), let the AI structure each one, dedupe, drop them in” is a reasonable feature… I will consider for a future enhancement if not too complicated to incorporate.
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TraceApps@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
RC2 now includes improved import functionality. I believe this will address your concern above!

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- Lonewolfmcquade@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Wow, that was fast! Thanks! I’ll give it a try
  
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