Cooking flowchart generator from recipe texts

Abstract

In cooking, it is important to both focus on each cooking process and to consider the entire cooking process. However, since many cooking recipes are expressed using text and images simply, it is difficult for a beginner to grasp the entire procedure from a bird's-eye view. In this paper, we describe an interactive visualization system that converts cooking recipes into flow charts. Our system, named GraphRecipe, is realized as a single page application and consists of three parts: cooking images, flow chart view, and cooking information. The flow chart expresses the entire procedure in a concise format, and the progress of the current cooking process and the details of the next work can be grasped immediately.