Comments on: Five tools to take your recipe file digital

By: Burt

Burt — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:23:31 +0000

Laura-

I recently captured all of my recipes via Paprika and it was very easy. I’m interested in your experiences capturing printed and handwritten recipes. Can you comment on the tools you’ve tried since writing the article and what you recommend? Did you scan them to an image and save the image, or did you actually OCR the recipes? I’d kind of like to do the latter to make them searchable.

Thanks!

By: beason

beason — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:58:00 +0000

You should check out the new Epicurious recipe box. not only can you download ecookbooks, you can install a recipe clipper that lets you get a recipe from ANYWHERE and put it in your recipe box. Including Pintrest! So those visual inspiraition when originating from a recipe can be saved in a recipe box.

By: Jim Polichak

Jim Polichak — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:27:21 +0000

The problem of using a pad or laptop in the kitchen is solved by printing the recipe out on a sheet of paper.
If there’s room on the bottom I include an ingredients check list. Make sure I have every thing I need & if I don’t take the list to the store.
When the meal is over – Recycle the paper.

By: Elaine Clisham

Elaine Clisham — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:05:08 +0000

Also, Springpad does a great job storing recipes (and is better than Evernote at some other things — love the Whiteboard!).

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:41:46 +0000

You can save all of the recipes on Epicurious to the in-site recipe box. (I work for Epi)

By: Cookie monster

Cookie monster — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:49:24 +0000

Not sure: but what’s the fifth tool?

By: Kate Handel

Kate Handel — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:50:17 +0000

You might also try BigOven. You can use the mobile apps to take photos of typed or handwritten paper recipes, and BigOven types them for you into fully portable, scalable, searchable recipes. You can add web recipes by pasting a url, plus you can get started with over 250,000 public recipes from other cooks to search too. BigOven offers a grocery list, a menu planner, re-usable menus and more, which all sync across all devices and the web. Unlike Paprika, BigOven does offer a fully functional website that automatically syncs with its mobile apps.

By: Laura Hazard Owen

Laura Hazard Owen — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:35:10 +0000

I actually do mention Paprika above, in the Evernote section. The primary reasons I don’t use it: I have a lot of recipes that are not on the web that I did not want to type in manually; I prefer tagging to categories; and since I already use Evernote for other stuff, I didn’t want to add another system. But Paprika definitely seems like a great solution for a lot of people.

By: Neil Hinrichsen

Neil Hinrichsen — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:53:43 +0000

TurboScan is the only iPhone scanning app I’ve found that works consistently…

By: Jim Barber

Jim Barber — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 03:26:15 +0000

Definitely need to look at Paprika