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@article{196727,
        author = {DIVYA LAKSHMI K and Harini S and Janani R and Gnanapriyan F},
        title = {Smart Food Saver: Avoid Needless Expenses - A Vision for Zero Waste},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {4819-4826},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=196727},
        abstract = {Food waste is a major problem in most households, often caused by poor awareness of existing grocery inventory. As a result, users tend to repurchase items they already have at home, leading to unnecessary expenses and wastage. The Smart Food Saver, a modular grocery management system that assists customers in monitoring their home products and avoids unnecessary spending, is proposed in this research work. The system allows customers to manually enter products and automatically update the list based on consumption and potential overbuying scenarios. The semi-automatic receipt scanning system of the proposed system employs optical character recognition (OCR) to reduce manual processing. Before the products are entered into the system, they can be verified by the customers.},
        keywords = {Optical Character Recognition, Food Waste Reduction, Grocery Management, Inventory Tracking, Flask Application, Overbuy Prediction, Household Inventory System.},
        month = {April},
        }