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Menu Photo Translator with Diet Flags

Snap a foreign-language menu and get dishes translated with veg, allergy and spice flags.

Beginner10h1–2 people16/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Menu Photo Translator with Diet Flags for travellers and people with dietary restrictions in ~10h with 1–2 people. Stack: Vision LLM + Next.js + Local storage.

Why it wins: Simple to build, clearly useful and very visual.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Travellers cannot read menus and risk ordering food that clashes with allergies or diets.
02 · Solution
A vision LLM reads the menu photo, translates each dish, explains it in one line and flags common allergens and diet fit based on the user's profile.
03 · Build
  1. 1Build a camera upload page
  2. 2Prompt a vision LLM for structured dish JSON
  3. 3Store the diet profile locally
  4. 4Render filterable dish cards
04 · Demo
Photograph a printed menu in another language and filter it to vegetarian dishes in one tap.

MVP checklist

  • Dish-by-dish translation
  • Allergen and diet flags
  • Saved diet profile
  • Filter by diet

Tech stack

TechRole
Vision LLMImage understanding
Next.jsFrontend + API routes
Local storageClient-side persistence

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