Best for
- Families photographing recipe cards at home
- Helpers scanning old notebooks and clippings
- Designers preparing a source folder
Recipe scanning
Recipe photo scanning checklist
Use a recipe photo scanning checklist to capture old cards, notebook pages, clippings, and family food photos before layout.
What the handoff includes
- Scan quality checklist
- Filename and folder plan
- Front/back capture notes
- Private transfer instructions
Workflow
- Clean the surface and lighting.
- Capture front and back when needed.
- Group files by recipe or chapter.
- Send a private source folder.
Review safeguards
- Avoid shadows and cropped corners.
- Keep original scans until the final PDF is approved.
- Do not upload source scans to public folders.
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.
Do I need a scanner?
A scanner helps, but clear phone photos can work if lighting and focus are good.
Should I photograph the back of cards?
Yes, if there are notes, dates, names, or stains that matter to the family story.