Turn handwritten recipe cards into recipes you can cook from

That stained index card in your grandmother’s handwriting can’t be replaced. Take a photo and feedme.recipes reads it and turns it into a clean recipe, with ingredients and steps you can search, scale and cook from. The original photo stays attached, so the handwriting is never lost.

How it works

1. Take a photo of the card, or upload one you already have.
2. Writing on the back too? Add both sides. A recipe that runs over several pages can have several photos.
3. feedme.recipes reads the writing and lays it out as ingredients and steps.
4. Check the result and fix anything it misread. You always see it before it is saved.
5. Save. Your original photo stays with the recipe.

Not just cards

The same works for cookbook pages, magazine clippings, printouts with notes in the margin and the pages of a family recipe binder.

Tips for a clear photo

• Use daylight from a window and avoid your own shadow across the card.
• Hold the phone straight above the card and fill the frame with it.
• Lay curled cards flat. A plain, dark surface behind a light card helps.
• Take one card per photo.
• Turn the flash off. It causes glare on glossy or laminated cards.

Share the family recipes

Recipes you add yourself, like your own cards, can be shared with a link. Anyone with the link can see the recipe and add it to their own feedme.recipes collection. Put them in a collection such as “Grandma’s recipes” so they are always together.

Before you photograph them, read our guide: How to preserve Grandma’s recipe cards.