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joquarky on Sept 16, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store...

It seems like we have all of the tools necessary to take a picture of a segment of store shelf and have the price data extracted from the photo, associated with the item itself, cross referenced, etc, and then show you an overlay with the best deals highlighted.

Gare on Sept 17, 2023 [–]

It's illegal to scrape databases in the EU.

lifeisstillgood on Sept 17, 2023 | [–]

huh? Is that real?

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