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Google’s AI Doesn’t Understand Restaurant Menus – Terence Eden’s Blog

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In the glorious future, every website will be chock-full of semantic metadata. Restaurants won’t have a 50MB PDF explaining the chef’s vision for organic cuisine – instead, they&#…

In the glorious future, every website will be chock-full of semantic metadata. Restaurants won't have a 50MB PDF explaining the chef's vision for organic cuisine - instead, they'll have little scraps of data on the HTML page like: Copied JSON to 📋 JSON"hasMenuItem":{ "@type":"MenuItem", "name":"Dodo In A Bun", "description":"The legendary extinct bird cooked in tomato sauce, served in a gluten-free bun.", "offers":{ "@type":"Offer", "price":"7.99", "priceCurrency":"GBP" }, But, for now, they don't. So Google uses MACHINE LEARNING and DEEP AI to scrape the menus out of PDFs and photos…

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