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How to Scan a Recipe

Scan Recipe is a mobile feature that turns a written recipe into a structured ingredient list (a bill of materials) linked to your product catalog. Once a recipe is built and activated, it powers per-dish carbon estimates and lets sales of that menu item be tracked against your inventory.

Prerequisites​

  • The ReRoute AI mobile app, with camera access allowed.
  • A written recipe to scan (a printed recipe card, a recipe in a binder, or typed text).

Steps​

  1. Open the mobile app and go to More, then tap Scan Recipe.

  2. Capture -- Photograph the recipe (or enter its text) and let the app extract the ingredient lines using AI.

  3. Details -- Confirm or edit the recipe name and serving/batch yield.

  4. Confirm -- Each extracted ingredient line shows the AI's suggested match to your product catalog, along with an editable quantity and unit. For each line:

    • Confirm -- accept the AI's suggested product match as-is.
    • Change -- search your catalog and pick a different product.
    • Create new -- add a new ingredient directly from this screen if nothing in your catalog matches.
    • If the AI could not read a unit correctly (for example, an unsupported term), pick the correct unit from the unit picker before continuing.
    • You cannot continue until every line has a confirmed mapping.

  5. Review -- See a summary of the recipe (servings, how many lines are mapped, how many were newly created), then tap Save & Activate.

  6. Success -- Once saved, the recipe is activated and its ingredient list is materialized. If a carbon estimate is available for the recipe, it is shown here.

What happens after activation​

  • The recipe's ingredient list can now be linked to a point-of-sale item, so each sale of that menu item is attributed a carbon footprint and can be reconciled against inventory usage for waste tracking.
  • You can view and edit a recipe's full ingredient list from the Recipes section of the web app.
note

Nothing is saved until you tap Save & Activate on the last step -- you can review and correct every AI-suggested ingredient match first.

tip

If an ingredient repeats across many recipes (like a common base sauce or garnish), mapping it once carries over -- future scans that include the same ingredient text will suggest the same match.