Expiration Date Inspection: How to Use Gemini + Roboflow

Millions of products are discarded or consumed past their expiration dates due to the difficulty of manually tracking expiry codes, which vary in format. A combination of Roboflow and Google's Gemini offers a solution to this problem by creating an OCR (optical character recognition) workflow that can identify and interpret these codes. The process involves using Roboflow Workflows to set up a system that extracts and organizes data such as food items, brands, and expiry dates from product images into a structured JSON format. This tool, which is easily scalable for inventory management or consumer apps aimed at reducing food waste, leverages the strengths of Gemini's OCR capabilities to efficiently process and tabulate expiry-related information, even when some data fields are missing or unclear.