Cook'n 12 F.A.Q.
- Q. My Recipes are gone! How to I get them back?
- Q. How can I capture my Pinterest recipes?
- Q. What do I do if I can't post a recipe to Facebook?
- Q. Where is the scan-it button on my Cook'n toolbar?
- Q. When I scan a recipe into Cook'n, all I get is a bunch of garbled text instead of the recipe. Why?
Q. My Recipes are gone! How to I get them back?
If you have somehow lost your recipes, there are two ways to restore them: 1) If you have a Cook'n Cloud account, click Options>Preferences. Click the Cloud Settings button. Log into your Cook'n cloud account. 2) If you don't have a Cook'n cloud account, click File>Restore and select the largest or most recent .ckn file. They are located in the Documents/Cook'n Backups folder.
Q. How can I capture my Pinterest recipes?
We are still working on the Pinterest issue. Pinterest has changed a few things on their end, and we're working to keep up! Right now it's not possible to log into Pinterest using the settings in Cook'n. What you can do instead is enter https://www.pinterest.com/******** in Cook’n. (Enter your Pinterest username where the **** are) You can then choose a pin board you want to capture, and press capture.
Q. What do I do if I can't post a recipe to facebook?
A. If you cannot post to Facebook, check your Facebook settings. Set it so you do NOT get notified me when another app or browser tries to post on your behalf.
Q. Where is the scan-it button on my Cook'n toolbar?
A. We have updated the toolbar, and replaced the scan-it button with the new scissors icon. Click the scissors icon to import a scanned recipe. Note: PDF files are not accepted by Cook'n at this time. Please use a JPG format.
Q: When I scan a recipe into Cook'n, all I get is a bunch of garbled text instead of the recipe. Why?
A: Because of certain limits to the OCR technology used to convert image to text, your recipe picture may not be able to be converted. Blurry images, hand-written script, and askew images will not convert well. For example, please look at the two images below:
The first image appears fairly clean and readable to the human eye. However, when you zoom in and take a close look at what the computer sees (see the 2nd image), it is easy to understand how difficult it would be for the computer to interpret this text accurately. For example, as you can see, all of the letters run into each other. The ‘v’ in the word divide is just a big hodge podge of black, light-gray, and dark gray pixels that collide with the letter ‘i’ that follows it. The ‘s’ and the ‘c’ in the word “scalloped” run together as well. With a low resolution scan like this, it would be faster to just re-type the recipe. The technology we use is the same used by Google for their book scanning project. It is a quality OCR engine that is highly regarded. If you are still wondering about this, I suggest downloading the FreeOCR app (https://download.cnet.com/FreeOCR/3000-10743_4-10717191.html) and comparing the results with the results you get in Cook’n. You will see that the results are the same.
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