README.md

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title: 🍽️ AI Food Menu Generator
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# 🍽️ AI Food Menu Generator

Welcome to the **AI Food Menu Generator** – an intelligent web app that extracts food items from a menu image and generates realistic food images using text-to-image AI.

## 🚀 Features

- 📸 Upload a food menu image
- 🧠 Extract food names using image-to-text models
- 🎨 Generate food images using AI models like `gemma:3b` or similar via Ollama
- 🖼️ View results instantly in your browser
- ⚡ FastAPI backend + Hugging Face Spaces deployment via Docker


## 🧪 Example Usage

1. Upload a food menu image
2. The app extracts menu items (like `Paneer Tikka`, `Burger`)
3. For each item, it generates a realistic food image using text-to-image AI
4. Results are shown with image previews

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## 🔧 Tech Stack

- **FastAPI** - backend API server
- **Ollama + Gemma** - local model for image generation
- **Docker** - for containerized deployment
- **Hugging Face Spaces** - for live hosting
- **Diffusers & Transformers** - model inference
- **Pillow** - image handling
- **Python** - ❤️

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## 🐳 Docker Usage (Optional for Local Run)

```bash
docker build -t ai-food-menu .

docker run -p 7860:7860 ai-food-menu