will this extract ingredients?

[ralyodio]

I'm thinking of building a recipe database and am looking for a tool that will extract ingredients and measurements.

The docs aren't clear if that's what this library does.

I won't know ahead of time what the ingredients are. I will only have the text.

[Charlie85270]

Hi Chovy, this library extract the unit, the quantity and the ingredient text of a recipe instructions.
Ex : 12 cl of cold water -> unit 'cl' , quantity '12' and ingredients 'cold water'.
The lib can return key for unit (12 cl of water and 12 centilitre of cold water will both return unit = 'cl') but not modify the ingredient text (the first return ingredient = 'water' and the second = 'cold water'.

[ralyodio]

will it work on a block of text or html or does the input need to be formatted somehow?

[Charlie85270]

It's work with simple string

[ralyodio]

so it assumes the input is an ingredient.