Best for
- Families with mixed recipe cards
- Estate organizers
- Helpers preserving a relative's kitchen archive
Recipe box digitization
Digitize a family recipe box
Plan a private recipe box digitization workflow for sorting cards, scanning backs, preserving order, transcribing text, and choosing final chapters.
What the handoff includes
- Sorting plan
- Front and back capture checklist
- Card identity labels
- Digital chapter map
Workflow
- Photograph the box before sorting.
- Group cards without losing original context.
- Capture fronts, backs, and envelopes.
- Review the digital archive before layout.
Review safeguards
- Keep cards in a safe place during the project.
- Do not throw away duplicates before family review.
- Use private storage for scans and notes.
Service boundary
FamilyRecipeLegacyAI helps organize, transcribe, and format private family recipes. It does not provide nutrition, allergy, food safety, legal, or publishing advice. Families should review every ingredient, measure, name, and story before sharing or printing.
When paid recipe book prep is worth it
Buy the $49 starter after the free brief has a small sample or first 8-12 pages, enough context for OCR review, chapter planning, measurement flags, and one family reviewer. Use the $149 full prep when the family needs a fuller private booklet handoff with source mapping, permissions, proof tracking, contributor notes, archive structure, and private sharing planning. Skip payment if you need scanning, perfect OCR, physical printing, public publishing, file-permission changes, messages sent, nutrition, allergy, food-safety, copyright, legal, publishing, or printer advice, or guaranteed transcription, print quality, delivery, refunds, privacy, approval, sales, or revenue.
Should I organize by dish type first?
Preserve original context first, then create a second cookbook grouping if helpful.
Does it scan physical cards?
No. It prepares the workflow and notes for your scanner or helper.