README.md

CCCC: Credit Card Calorie Counter

Table of contents

• CCCC: Credit Card Calorie Counter
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Features
    • Link Bank Accounts and Fetch Transactions Data
    • Scan Receipt Image
  • Architecture

Introduction

CCCC is an food-focused expense tracking application built with Flutter, Firebase, and Plaid API.

This project uses the following technologies:

• Dart and Flutter for building mobile application
• Firebase Cloud Firestore for NoSQL Database
• Google Cloud Functions for serverless functions
• Plaid API for connecting with bank accounts and fetching transactions data

Features

Link Bank Accounts and Fetch Transactions Data

Open Plaid Link	Connect Bank Account	Fetch Transactions

Scan Receipt Image

Screenshot

Using image_picker, Google ML Kit's Text Recognition function, and Plaid API, I created a feature where users can scan the receipt image and match it with the transaction data from their debit/credit card.

1. Pick Image to scan using image_picker package

import 'package:image_picker/image_picker.dart';

Future<File?> pickImage(ImageSource source) async {
  final image = await picker.pickImage(source: source);

  if (image != null) {
    final file = File(image.path);

    return file;
  } else {

    return null;
  }
}

2. Extract Texts and items from the file

import 'package:google_ml_kit/google_ml_kit.dart';

Future<ReceiptResponse?> extractTexts() async {
  logger.d('File exists. Start using [GoogleMlKit]');

  final imageFile = pickImage(ImageSource.camera)
  final textDetector = GoogleMlKit.vision.textDetector();
  final inputImage = InputImage.fromFile(imageFile);
  final recognisedText = await textDetector.processImage(inputImage);
  final textsWithOffsets = _getTextsWithOffsets(recognisedText);
  final nestedLines = texts.blocks.map((e) => e.lines).toList();
  final textLines = nestedLines.expand((e) => e).toList();
  final textElements = textLines.expand((e) => e.elements).toList();
  final textElementsMap = textElements.map((e) => e.toMap).toList();
  
  final response = await functions.processReceiptTexts(
    rawTexts: recognisedText.text.replaceAll('\n', ', '),
    textsWithOffsets: textsWithOffsets,
  );

  return response;
}

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Architecture

lib/
│───constants/
│───extensions/
│───models/
│───routes/
│───services/
│───styles/
│───view_models/
│───views/
│───widget_models/
│───widgets/
└───main.dart

• constants: constant values such as urls, keys, etc
• extensions: custom extensions for String or Enum
• models: custom classes and enums
• routes: for routing within the app
• services: for using Firebase Authentication, Cloud Firestore, and Functions
• styles: app-level ThemeData, TextStyles, ButtonStyles, and Color Palette
• view: Scaffold-level ui components
• view_models: view model for each view scaffolds
• widgets: widgets that are used in view