FrankenCampus Canteen Menu PDF Parser aka Mahlzeit!
an invention by cwh
Updated 5 months 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

  • about 1 year ago: enavarro_suse liked this project.
  • about 1 year ago: okurz liked this project.
  • about 1 year ago: cwh joined this project.
  • about 1 year ago: faeller started this project.
  • about 1 year ago: digitaltomm liked this project.
  • about 1 year ago: robert.richardson liked this project.
  • about 1 year ago: cwh added keyword "frankencampus" to this project.
  • about 1 year ago: cwh added keyword "userexpierience" to this project.
  • about 1 year ago: cwh added keyword "kiosk" to this project.
  • about 1 year ago: cwh originated this project.


    • Comments

    • digitaltomm
      about 1 year ago by digitaltomm | Reply

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

    • dirkmueller
      about 1 year ago by dirkmueller | Reply

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

      • enavarro_suse
        about 1 year 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
          6 months ago by cwh | Reply

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

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