Open Prices: news

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The place to learn about the latest news & product releases for Open Prices!

A few useful links:

• The app: https://prices.openfoodfacts.org (and on mobile!)
• The code: Github Backend (API) CHANGELOG.md & Frontend (Web) CHANGELOG.md
• Feedback, discussions: here, or on Slack (prices channel)
• Project management: Full documentation, Github Project board ; We meet online every Thursday at 5PM French time (link in Slack)

Have an idea? Want to give feedback?
You can open a discussion in this forum, or report a bug via a new Github issue

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September 2024

New features

Other news

• Lightning talk presentation during the OFF Days (21-22 September 2024). More info here.
• 30k prices

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October 2024

New dynamic/core-contributors following the OFF Days!

New features

• Manage online stores (for products bought online)
• New consumption-related fields to help users track the number items they buy (for receipts)
• Revamp the home & dashboard pages
• Dark mode

Other news

• We’ve looking for funding to help grow the project (volunteer-only for now). We’ll be applying to NGI0 Commons Fund

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November 2024

AI is coming…

New features

• Start interacting with Gemini (Google’s GenAI) API to extract data from proof images. Experimental for now.
• Start running OCR on Proof images to categorize them (Price Tag, Receipts, Product image…)

Other news

• More than 50k prices! More info here.
• The community is starting to reuse the data! Here’s a page that lists these reuses.

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December 2024

AI in production
And readying the platform for mass collection & validation: users add shelf price images > AI extracts price tags location & content > users validate the prices

New features

Other news

We’ll be launching a price-collection campaign in January. Stay tuned

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Lots of stuff have happened since 2024

We’ve recently improved the project documentation, with Guides, Topics, and Community-related pages: https://openfoodfacts.github.io/open-prices/