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Scan your menu — let the AI read it in

Typing a whole menu in by hand is slow. Give the AI your printed menu and it pulls out every item and price, then shows you exactly what it wants to add or change.

The rule

You always review first. The AI proposes; you decide. Nothing changes on your public menu until you press Apply. New items are hidden after that too. Guests see them only when you press Show them on the menu.

How it works

  1. Open Menu → Scan Menu (AI).
  2. Drag your menu straight onto the box, or click it to browse. Up to 5 pages at a time — front and back, or a photo of each board.
  3. Each page appears as a thumbnail, so you can see you picked the right one. Hover a page and press ✕ to take it out; press Add more for another.
  4. Press Scan my menu. Your pages go up one at a time — each lights up as it is sent — and are then read together as one menu. About half a minute in total.
  5. Review the plan: Menu structure, New items, Price changes (old → new), and Fill in details for items you already have.
  6. Everything is pre-ticked. Untick anything you’d rather skip, then press Apply.
  7. New items are saved but hidden. Check them in your menu. Then press Show them on the menu.

Good to know

  • The line printed under an item comes in too — it becomes the item’s short blurb, and any ingredients named in it become ingredient tags. That’s what lets your menu hide an item from a guest avoiding something.
  • Scan the same menu again and nothing is wasted. Items you already have appear under Fill in details, and only empty boxes are filled — anything you wrote is never replaced.
  • Drinks are filed like a beverage manager would file them — wine under Red, White, Rosé or Sparkling, with a heading like “ITALY (Tuscany)” landing on the bottle as its region rather than becoming a section.
  • A computer-made PDF costs far less than a photo, because the words are already inside the file. The cost is shown next to the button.
  • Applying costs a small amount too. When you press Apply, the AI reads each new item once and adds its tags. A menu of 50 items costs about 30 credits.
  • A link has to be a web page that shows your menu. A Google Drive link does not work — we get the Drive page, not your file. If you are not sure, upload a photo or a PDF instead.
  • A menu that prints two sizes keeps both. A “10 inches / 13 inches” header with two prices under each pizza becomes two sizes on the item, named as you printed them. A calzone priced under one column only gets that one — a price is never moved into a size you did not print. Already imported at a single price? Scan again and the missing sizes appear under Price changes.
  • Got something wrong? In the review list you can click the name to retype it, pick a different section from the dropdown, and click any price to correct it — each size has its own. ↺ puts back what we read. Name and section can be changed on new items; for an item you already have, edit it in the menu.
  • A very long menu may need two goes. There is a limit to how much can be read in one pass. If yours runs past it we keep everything read up to that point and say so above the list — scan the remaining pages separately to add the rest.
  • Only new items start hidden. A new price or a filled-in detail changes an item that guests already see, so it shows at once.
  • You can also send a photo to the Telegram chat. The same AI reads it. See Add a photo to your menu from Telegram.
  • It never removes anything, never renames your sections, and never invents a description. To take an item off, hide it in the editor.