FrankenCampus Canteen Menu PDF Parser aka Mahlzeit!
an invention by cwh
Updated about 1 year ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.

Project Description

Make a PDF parser command line tool that brings the Nuremberg Canteen's Menu to a usable format (Plain text, JSON) that can be used in WebApps, Smart Displays or a Slack/IRC Bots.

Goal for Hackweek 22

Get at least a list of meals for each day.

Find the code on GitHub

Status

It works for more than ten months (39 menus) now.

Check out the JSON file and the Web View

Goal for Hackweek 23

Make it a Progressive Web App! Can be installed on desktops using Chrome and mobile devices using Android and iOS. Also works if offline!

Status

Done! See code in https://github.com/cwh42/mahlzeit/tree/main/web

Unfortunately syncing homes on users.suse.com is broken for a month, now. So it cannot be deployed. :(

Goal for Hackweek 24+

Maybe: Create a Slack Preview

Resources

Used Tools and Libraries

Looking for hackers with the skills:

frankencampus userexpierience kiosk

This project is part of:

Hack Week 22 Hack Week 23

Activity

  • almost 2 years ago: enavarro_suse liked this project.
  • almost 2 years ago: okurz liked this project.
  • almost 2 years ago: cwh joined this project.
  • almost 2 years ago: faeller started this project.
  • almost 2 years ago: digitaltomm liked this project.
  • almost 2 years ago: robert.richardson liked this project.
  • almost 2 years ago: cwh added keyword "frankencampus" to this project.
  • almost 2 years ago: cwh added keyword "userexpierience" to this project.
  • almost 2 years ago: cwh added keyword "kiosk" to this project.
  • almost 2 years ago: cwh originated this project.


    • Comments

    • digitaltomm
      almost 2 years ago by digitaltomm | Reply

      Related: https://hackweek.opensuse.org/22/projects/bring-to-life-the-studio-kiosk-in-frankenstrasse

    • dirkmueller
      almost 2 years ago by dirkmueller | Reply

      is there a public version of the RSS feed? then that could be integrated into slack

      • enavarro_suse
        almost 2 years ago by enavarro_suse | Reply

        It seems so. From the README.md [1] file of the GitHub project:

        Find cli tools in ./utils, if you prefer subscribing to a RSS feed choose the Internal or the External one.

        [1] https://github.com/cwh42/mahlzeit#usage

        • cwh
          about 1 year ago by cwh | Reply

          Sorry, I dropped the RSS feed. However there could be a Slack-Preview soon!

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